• Brown MD

• Biomedical Technology
• Electronic Health Records / trends
• Open Access Document
• Technology / trends

Excerpt: Tomei’s Taxonomy for the Technology Domain and the proposed taxonomy it describes was originally written for teachers and educational administrators in any educational discipline. Today it takes on a new meaning for medical professionals in an era of rapidly expanding technology usage. A particularly noteworthy technology, the electronic medical record (EMR), has required extensive education and training at every level in the medical environment. Prior to the use of EMR, a health care professional’s interaction with technology was perhaps passive or merely receptive. With the rapid infusion of EMR into all aspects of medical practice, those in health care must become technology savvy. It is now imperative that they become active users, manipulators, and educators of the technology before them. The very well-being of their patients will rely increasingly on their progressive competency in this domain. Those who teach chiropractic have a double challenge, their own patient care and the training of the next generation. Tomei has the expertise to guide us through this domain, given his role as Dean of Academic Services at Robert Morris University and his extensive publications in the areas of technology education, online and distance learning, and technology driven curricula.

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