Short Communicaton Open access Clinical Psychiatry ISSN: 2471-9854 © Under License of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License This artcle is available in: htps://www.primescholars.com/clinical-psychiatry.html Volume 08 • Issue 04 • 136 Corresponding author Daniel Ainooson, Department of Math and ICT Educaton, University of Cape Coast, Ghana, Email: daniel.ainooson-noonoo@ucc.edu.gh Citaton Ainooson D (2022) Promotng Health Informaton with Technology: Determining the Dependability of the Informaton. Clin Psychiatry Vol.8.4:136 Copyright © 2022 Ainooson D. This is an open-access artcle distributed under the terms of the Creatve Commons Atributon License, which permits unrestricted use, distributon, and reproducton in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited Received: 30-March-2022 Manuscript No: IPCP-22-12800 Editor assigned: 01-April-2022 PreQC No: IPCP-22-12800 (PQ) Reviewed: 15- April -2022 QC No: IPCP-22-12800 Revised: 20- April -2022 Manuscript No: IPCP-22-12800 (R) Published: 27- April-2022 DOI: 10.35841/2471-9854-8.4.136 Promotng Health Informaton with Technology: Determining the De- pendability of the Informaton Daniel Ainooson * Department of Math and ICT Educaton, University of Cape Coast, Ghana Abstract We now live in the informaton age where access to Internet resources is just a few clicks away. The Internet is a technology, which has gained more popularity in many countries across the world and Ghana, is no excepton. The Internet as a medium of communicaton and source of informaton has enabled students, researchers, business informaton seekers and informaton professionals to access informaton to enhance their work and communicate efectvely. Hence, there is the need to determine the dependability of the informaton gathered from these sourc- es. INTRODUCTION In today’s world the disseminaton of any type of informaton has become very easy and has brought about some great ben- efts in the health sector as well as serious challenges when it comes to health promoton issues. This is because both the good and bad informaton is disseminated across almost the same platorms which sometmes create a confict in the minds of persons who are not well endowed in health issues. For this reason there is a need to sort out the good informaton from the bad informaton and this chapter is to bring to light the var- ious approaches and techniques that are required when sort- ing out such health informaton. The use of technological tools in health promoton is not only limited to the disseminaton of informaton but has been gradually integrated into the general healthcare service which benefts not only health practtoners but also individuals and the entre society. Some possibilites of technology in health promoton are telemedicine services, electronic health records, health portals, tele-Internal Care Unit (ICU) services and health informaton networks, which helps improve and promote health by assistng health pract- toners to detect, diagnose, prevent, monitor and treat diseas- es, as well as enable individuals to manage their lifestyle and improve their wellness and quality of life [1]. DESCRIPTION As stated by Blake (2008) health technologies are being used on a daily basis for the preventon, diagnosing and treatment of diseases; the rehabilitaton and long term care of patents; and the provision and evaluaton of drugs, devices, clinical pro- cedures and healthcare setngs. Blake mentoned that new technologies are rapidly expanding in all areas of health com- municaton and have the potental to reach larger and more di- verse audiences than ever before. Some of these technologies are email, Social media and websites. The main role of these technologies in health promoton has been highlighted Blake already. A number of diferent uses of technologies in health promoton which span four broad thematc applicaton areas have been were highlighted by Blake. It was suggested that the technologies may be used for a research focus by means of seeking and evaluatng health informaton. Or they may be used as a research instrument, by means of collectng data, or accessing research partcipants. They further suggested that the technologies may be used for professional development, or as an interventon medium by means of distributng health informaton or initatng behaviour change. Of these four broad thematc areas misinformaton can arise from any of them if care is not taken partcularly with the research focus, research instrument and interventon medium. The fnal which is profes- sional development is not of great concern as the three because a professional as the name suggest would have an idea of the general issue and would be easy to detect a miscommunicaton or misinformaton but the other three involves individuals who may not have any knowledge or idea of the health issue being