COMPUTERS IN MEDICAL

FIELD

INFLUENCE

 Health informatics is a discipline at the

intersection of information science, computer
science, and health care. It deals with the resources,
devices, and methods required to optimize the
acquisition,
storage, retrieval,
and
use
of
information in health and biomedicine. It include
computers,clinical
guidelines,
formal
medical
terminologies, and information and communication
systems. It is applied to the areas of nursing, clinical
care,
dentistry,
pharmacy,
public
health,
occupational therapy, and (bio)medical research.
Computers play major role in this.

ROLE OF COMPUTERS IN MEDICAL FIELD

Maintaining Record System

Billing and Financial System
Analysis
Material Management
Radiology
Clinical Management
Tracking Patients

CT scan

X-rays

Computers make their role perfect in all types of

clinical image processing like CT scan X-rays and
more accurately

Surgery with help of Computers

ADVANTAGES

Computers are mostly used in every organization. Computer plays different

roles in different fields now a days no field is evolving without the role of
computers.
Computers become a reliable product in every hospital due to its effective
and efficient performance. From open heart surgery to X-Rays everything
is made possible so easily only through computers.
A part from administration purposes computers are used in performing
surgeries. Laparascopic surgeries is said to be the most common surgery
which can be done only through the help of computers. The medical experts
insert the medical tools and other small equipments attached with cameras
into the patients body.

ADVANTAGES
High-tech surgery tools and instruments embedded with cameras are used
in surgical process. The operations done by the medical experts are
completely recorded by the computers for future references and also to
avoid complications.
Computers make their role perfect in all types of clinical image processing
like CT scan X-rays and more accurately.
The Heart rate, pulse rate, brain readings and other specifications are
monitored and recorded continuously through computers and finally the
medical expert analyze the computer record and provide treatment for the
affected person.
Always up to date

DISADVANTAGES

Cost
One of the biggest drawbacks of adding computers to
hospitals is the cost. Computers cost money, and a large
hospital needs many computers to keep the system
running smoothly.

Creating a network to transfer medical records or keep

track of billing is an additional initial cost. Unlike paper
records, which simply require a few more copies, electronic
record keeping requires constant upkeep of computers,
computer software and other electronic elements, which
can cost even more.

DISADVANTAGES
Security
If your doctor or hospital is switching to computers or
electronic record keeping, you're probably worried about the
security of your medical records. Paper records are kept in a
doctor's office or a warehouse, but once computers are
added to a hospital, electronic record keeping typically
follows. Once electronic record keeping is begun, medical
information is usually added to a closed computer network,
but as long as an Internet connection comes into the
network, the system is vulnerable to outside sources,
opening the debate to questions about patient privacy and
medical record security.

DISADVANTAGES
Lack of Standardization
From a hospital point of view, one of the biggest
disadvantages of adding computers and electronic records
to a hospital is the lack of standardization through the
medical field. Different hospitals use different shorthand
abbreviations or symbols on medical records than others.
Even the codes called out during emergencies don't always
mean the same thing in every hospital. If a medical record is
transferred from another hospital or the system becomes
open so hospitals can share information, the lack of
standardization in hospital notes and records could cause
problems when it comes to a medical professional's
understanding of the medical record.

 Creating discipline at the intersection of information science,

computer science, and health care. It deals with the resources,
devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition,
storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and
biomedicine.
Helpful and Precise working system.
Due to rapid expansion of medicine a number of uses
including medical educations at all levels , point of service
medical inf.(especially diagnostic, treatment and medications)
and nowadays robotic surgery.
The main object of such smart instruments is to reduce or
eliminate the tissue trauma traditionally associated with open
surgery without requiring more than a few minutes' training on
the part of surgeons. This approach seeks to improve that
lion's share of surgeries, particularly cardio-thoracic, that
minimally invasive techniques have so failed to supplant.

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