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Annotated Bibliography

Arima, Y. (2005). Hikikomori Mura. Retrieved August 4, 2005, from http://www.hikky-mura.net/

This website developed by Yoshiya Arima, is a website that intended to develop an online community, which allows Hikikomori individuals to communicate and express their distress with other individuals through the format of BBS, in the purpose of healing their symptoms. Hikikomori refers to the people that are refuse to leave their room and they would lock themselves in the room for over a long period (couple month to couple years) to withdrawal from society, and this will lead them to have lack of social interaction. Presently, there are over one million of Hikikomori in Japan, and it has become one of the major social issues in Japan. The site developer Yoshiya Arima was also a Hikikomori, and now had become an online Hikikomori counselor. Based on Arima’s statement, to resolve this symptom, the best way is to have proper counseling, and due to the reason that Hikikomori patients are not willing to leave their room, counseling via online environment would be the most efficient way to resolve this social issue.

Covvey, H. D., Carven, N. H., & McAlister, N. H. (1985). What are the issue? In Concepts and Issues in Health Care Computing (Vol. 1, pp. 109 - 115). St. Louis: C.V. Mosby. ISBN 0-8016-3196-3

This chapter of the book illustrates the issues of conducting healthcare computing system. The author has divided the issues in to four parts, funding health care computing, technical issues such as privacy and security, management issues and educational issues. The author has focuses mostly on educational issue in this chapter. The author states that a well-trained and experienced individual is necessary to take effective responsibility for a healthcare computing project, and this type of person required to be both being the expert of computer science and health care. Unfortunately, many healthcare computing project has fail due to lack of people are in expert on both field. The author has also states that to resolve the educational issues, the most efficient way is to provide healthcare computing studies during their studies in university or college, to allow the health professionals to adapt in this innovation.

Gorry, G. A., Harris, L. M., Silva, J., and Eaglin, J. (1995). Health Care as Teamwork: The Internet Collaboratory. In Health and The New Media (pp. 87 - 105). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 0-8058-1569-4

In this chapter of the book, the author states that the advance of computing technology such as internet will be the key factor to a superior collaboration among providers, agencies, caregivers, families, etc. to integrate medical, health, mental health, social, economic support services, etc. The author points out that once individuals would have to work on a particular medical problem lifelong to come up with a solution, however, with the assistance of computing technologies, it allows wider ranges of people to resolve same large problems, through sharing their expertise and sharing documentation of chases.

Grossman, M. (2005). "Computer Eye Strain: How to Relieve it," Vision Work retrieved August 7, 2005, from http://www.visionworksusa.com/computereyestrain.htm#work

This article focuses on the effects on eyes caused by constant looking on computer. The author states that increasing number of people are experiencing eyestrain, headache, blurred vision, and doubling vision, due to the reason of long period of staring at computer screen. And the author states, heavy usage of computer with these symptoms are having a possible risk for glaucoma. Glaucoma is a type of eye diseases that causes damage to the optic nerve, and would lead to blindness. In order to prevent these symptoms and diseases, proper positioning of computer screen and frequent break for eye relaxing is recommended, as well, the author has also recommended to conduct eye exercises, which are divided in to five process, palming, near-far focus, scanning, hydrotherapy and head rolls.

Hartley, J. (2002). Communication, Cultural and Media Studies The Key Concepts London: Routledge. ISBN 0415268885

This book wrote by John Hartley, the Professor and Dean of the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT, defines and explains the important concepts of the communication, cultural and media studies field. The author demonstrates the concepts in multi-disciplinary explanation, which allows reader to have a clearer understanding of the concepts.

Kumar, S. (1999). Biomechanics in Ergonomics. Padstow: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0704-9

This book describes different types of disorders and injuries encounter during work. The author uses diagrams and images of human body to illustrate the force receive and release through particular working tasks. And the author has also provide recommendation on proper posturing styles in order to prevent from gaining disorders and injuries. This book is recommended to student for researching on the topic of health and technologies, becuase this book contains detailed information of symptoms caused by uses of new media technologies, such as RSI, CWMA, etc.

Levine, J. (2005). "Computer-Related Health Problems," AskMen.com retrieved August 6, 2005, from http://www.askmen.com/sports/health/36_mens_health.html

This article claims that presently, over 80% of jobs in America requires basic usage of computer, and had led the increases of people are at high risk of developing RSI. The author has provided detailed information on the cause of RSI, symptoms on RSI development, and has states that ergonomics are the main aspect to prevent RSI, such as keeping the computer area organized, sitting down with proper postures, and proper chair position, etc. However, the author has not explained what RSI is, and the effect after having RSI.

Priest, S. L. (1989). Implementing Tomorrow's Healthcare CR Network. In Understanding Computer Resources A Healthcare Perspective (pp. 281 - 290). Maryland: National Health. ISBN 0-444-89605-8

In this chapter of this book, the author forecast that computer networks would be playing an important role on the system of health care in the future, where each individuals would holding their own medical data stored in optical devices, and these data would allow hospital, nursing home, school, home health agency, satellite clinic, physician office to access efficiently. The author points that the major problem of this healthcare computer network would not be the technology, but it will be the legal questions, coordination of multiple users and the restrictions placed on it by government.

Reggia, J. A., & Tuhrim, S. (1985). Computer-Assisted Medical Decision Making. New York: Springer Verlag. ISBN 0-387-96104-6

This book presents the evolution of computer being a key assistance towards medical decision. The author points out that through the last century, large and rapid growth of medical knowledge has led most of the health professional to find it increasingly difficult to using all the information which would be useful for making judgments in medical field. However, the author points out that the introduction of computer-assisted medical decision making system (CMD) provide the solution of this problem. CMD is defined as the interactive computer system that directly assists health professionals with the clinical decision-making task.

University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina (2005, Oct. 13) "Implanted Medical-Records Chip Approved" Health News, retrieved August 3, 2005, from http://healthlink.uhseast.com/healthnews/healthday/041013HD521778.htm

This is an online health news article, that informs the new technology VeriChip, an implantable computer chip in a size of a grain rice, which contains the ability to record and scan medical information were approved through voting in America. Presently, over one thousand VeriChip are implanted in Mexican patients. According to the article, the procedure of implanting VeriChip lasts under twenty minutes and stitches are not required. Through scanning information from the chips, it allows to provide information such as blood type, allergies, prior treatments, etc.

--Ryuya Kina 11:56, 12 Aug 2005 (EST)