Question

What is the role of information technology in the environment and human health?

Answer 1

IT facilitates health care providers to collect, store, retrieve and transfer information electronically. Information technology presents numerous opportunities for improving and transforming healthcare which includes; reducing human errors, improving clinical outcomes, facilitating care coordination, improving practice efficiencies, and tracking data over time. Similarly Information technology helps in storing huge amounts of data captured while studying weather and climate, it helps researchers in analysing the data and to carry out research in the field of environment.