The world is being changed day by day and many new theories and technologies are also discovered by the scientist. The current century is known as the era of technology. So, the technology is very influential in every field of life. The information technology is very vast that holds every field and the medical field is also one of them. The online medical resource is the computer medical application introduced in the world that is very beneficial for the patients and doctors. The online resources have made things very easy for both doctors and patients. Due to its effectiveness, every doctor and patient in the world who have the facility, use online resources because it provides better information related to the disease including symptoms and the medications as well as the treatment procedures. In this document, brief information on the background of the system and some information related to old procedures of medications and checks provided. Some important current issues related to the online medical resources are provided in this document. In the last of this report, some advantages and disadvantages are also discussed.

Background of Online medical Resource

The online medical resource is an online medical media to provide information to help people with actual health concerns. The people were facing several troubles in old times when they have no medium as well as have no kind of facility to take better medical services in their homes. The people at that time had to go out of their places to the clinic or the hospital for a checkup where they had to face many different problems before checkup, during check-up or treatment as well as after checkup. In this section, the important problems of the doctors and patients are discussed and are also discussed why the online resources and how they included in real life. In the old times, patients had to face many different problems when they feel sick and wanted to have proper medication for their diseases. At that time, the people who were patients had no idea and proper information about their disease and they did not have proper information about symptoms of their particular diseases. When they feel sick, they have to go to a hospital or healthcare center for treatment but they had to wait there for a long time. On the other side, the doctor and the paramedical staff that is providing medical services to the patients, also felt many difficulties to check the patients and they have no proper time management facility. With time, the management of the hospitals brought some changes to the hospital that was effective and time-efficient. The people were encouraged to take an appointment first and then they can come to the hospital. The benefit of taking appointments through phone calls is that the patients could be in the contact with the doctor as well as paramedical staff and they would have the proper confirmed time to go to the doctor and they had not to wait in the waiting queue for a long time.

The main benefit of the appointment benefited the doctors and the patients together. The patients could take the confirm time for check by knowing that they had the confirm actual time, so they can go to the hospitals in the specific time which was provided them. Secondly, the patients can also interact with the doctors as well as could also have personal medical services into their houses by calling them and taking appointments. The doctors come to their houses and treat them effectively. So, it was beneficial for doctors and patients. Thirdly, the doctors could perform their researches as well as they could also study more for better treatment because they had now time to manage their work and manage their research and study. With the passage of time, the world has been changed and many improvements came into form to make everyone smarter. In the era of technology, the world has been changed and the medical field has also been changed because technology is very influential in every field of life to make the lives of humans easier. Information technology has completely changed the game of medication and made it easier as well as very effective nowadays. The information technology has collaborated with medical and made an effective and efficient system “online medical resource” that is currently used with the different names in several countries. The online medical service systems have improved healthcare functions, communication among the doctors and patients, as well as making it easier to access the actual and proper knowledge and information related to the diseases, medicines, symptoms as well as related medical research articles (Willis, Diago-Cabezudo, Madec-Hily, & Aslam, 2013).

The patients even doctors who want to get more information about the topic of health and are more likely to go to the medical website rather other sources, this trends is increasing day by day because the online resources can provide the proper information related to the disease and can also provide the proper medication but the online resources are also providing the facility to contact with the doctor who can provide better consultancy to the patients on the website. So, the online medical resources have made the information provision, communication with the doctors as well as information effective and easier than other sources.

Current Issues in Online Medical Resources

There can be several types of the issue into the online medical resources but some of the most disruptive are discussed in this section. The main issue with the online medical resource system is that the online medical resources can be failed or can go out of order due to any reason such as hackers attack the system for the data breach, cybersecurity threat, or the server load or failure. Most of the patients in the world have no proper information as well as have no knowledge of medical. So, that’s why most of the people do not like to use this system because of their perceptions that the online medical resource cannot provide the optimum solution of the disease. But it is a very significant issue with the online medical resource that it can provide the information but it cannot recommend a hundred percent appropriate information and symptoms of the particular or complex diseases and related medication. Furthermore, the patient can only see the information on this system but the system cannot give him surety that he has now this disease. In simple words, the online medical resources cannot provide proper information related to the disease as well as cannot diagnose his disease because the doctor consultancy is an essential thing for the treatment. The doctors may have the actual information related to the disease because they know already what think or article provide what kind of information and what would be the best medication for the disease. Although the online medical resources are also providing the facility to consult with the doctor it can be a bit expensive service for the users. Another issue with these resources is that the public or patient might have no proper information and knowledge of how to use the system and how to get the proper service. Some online medical resource systems may have the artificial intelligence embedded in the system that can create a different kind of issues related to the information that is being provided by the system to the patients and the people. Because of a lack of knowledge, people can get irrelevant or false information from this system but artificial intelligence and information technology have made it very effective for every person.

In the current issues on the online medical resources, many doctors, hospital as well as the paramedical staff challenge to online resources and most of them can also claim that the system is not providing relevant information or the system can have no ability to provide proper knowledge. It is because most of the doctors may also refuse to accept online medical resources. Many doctors in the world do not like this system because they have the perception that the system can damage the dignity of the doctors and many people may not take the doctor’s consultancy after using this system. The claim of doctors is also right and most of them have the right opinion that people will not take the services of the doctors and most of them do not want to visit doctors which can be a very dangerous thing for the patients. The reason is that the patients can treat themselves by reading the articles related to the minor disease such as flu, fever, body pay or other types of minor diseases but they have no information and knowledge about the major and dangerous disease such as hepatitis, typhoid, Corona, heart disease or other diseases which needs surgery. If the people will not consult with the doctors and always try to treat themselves, it can be dangerous for them and society. Another political issue with the online medical resources that are also telling why healthcare and paramedical staffs against to have this system. The reason is that the system will become more effective and very efficient for the patients, the business of the hospitals may be affected after having this system. Furthermore, the medical field is a very vast and complicated field that has a thousand researches and several ways and methods for the treatment of a disease. So, that’s why it is very difficult to have all information on online resources. It is because the people always like to used online medical resource systems to find the systems and the treatment of the disease then the patients will not easily come to the doctors and paramedical staff (Kritz, Gschwandtner, Stefanov, Hanbury, & Samwald, 2013).

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Advantages of Online Medical Resources

There are several types of benefits or advantages of the online medical resources which are discussed in this report study. Some most important, as well as very effective advantages of online resources, are given that are showing the importance of these systems.

The main benefit of online medical resources is that online resources are more efficient as well as more focused to effectively respond to the new medical information when it will be published. The advantage of the new information is that the doctors and patients will always see the most recent information related to symptoms of the particular disease as well as the appropriate medication of the disease. furthermore, the doctor feels comfort by using the online medical resource system or website. The reason for their comfort and satisfaction is that the online resource is very efficient as well as very intelligent that provides them the more relevant information to the doctors as they input some keywords to search for any disease and related medication procedures. The system effectively provides the related research and journal articles which can be more effective and efficient to increase the knowledge of the doctor.

It also provides the relevant disease information to patients before consulting doctors, so they will become able to understand the level of severity of the disease. It provides an effective communication medium in which the patient can easily communicate with doctors and different paramedics for getting consultancy. It increases the knowledge and understanding of patients towards the disease and they will become able to understand whether they are treated in the right way or not. It provides and saves larger data and records of previous cases. The most important benefit of the online medical resources is that the doctors and the paramedical staff are available at any time and can consult easily in case of an emergency. It is also more beneficial for the patients because most of the time, the patient forgets the important things and medication procedures, but the online medical resource provides the same things and medications to the patients (Ormond, Mun, & Khoon, 2014).

Disadvantages of Online Medical Resources

Some important and noticeable disadvantages of the online medical resources are available in this section that is telling that no anything exists in this world that can beat the treatment, as well as advice of the doctors. The main disadvantage of this system is that it might highly possible that the system may not provide the best solution for the reported disease. No doubt, the online medical system can be very intelligent to provide a lot of data and information related to the reported disease but it has no surety the shown information is relevant or not. The online medical resource can also provide unnecessary information on the website page and the patient may feel more anxious and afraid of the symptoms of the particular disease after reading the given information. Furthermore, it is very difficult for both doctors and patients to identify the fake news and information provided on the page of the online medical resource website and it is also hard to identify the biomedical companies and drug, nonprofit organizations, as well as research institutes. At the end of this section, the online medical resources have several benefits but it has also several disadvantages. The patients should have to go to their doctors for proper checkups and treatment because they can effectively check and give better advice related to the disease (Finfgeld, 2000).

Conclusion of Online Medical Resource

It is concluded that the online medical resource is an online medical media to provide information to help people with actual health concerns. The main benefit of the appointment benefited the doctors and the patients together. The online medical service systems have improved healthcare functions, communication among the doctors and patients, as well as making it easier to access the actual and proper knowledge and information related to the diseases. The main issue with the online medical resource system is that the online medical resources can be failed or can go out of order due to any reason. The online medical resources cannot provide proper information related to the disease. The doctor feels comfort by using the online medical resource system or website. It increases the knowledge and understanding of patients towards the disease and they will become able to understand whether they are treated in the right way or not. It provides and saves larger data and records of previous cases. The main disadvantage of this system is that it might highly possible that the system may not provide the best solution for the reported disease.

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