In the field of medicine and health care computers play very important role. Such as diagnosing diseases, monitoring patients during surgery etc.
1) Medical equipments :
Most of the medical equipments such as CT scanner, MRI scanner, Ultra Sound scanner, ECG, ECHO test, TMT, etc work with the help of computers
2) Electronic Medical Record(EMR):
It is a digital version of a paper chart that contains all of a patient’s medical history from one practice. An EMR is mostly used by doctors fordiagnosis and treatment.
3) Web based support / diagnosis :
Internet is used by the doctors to acquire information to diagnose and give treatment to the patients who are suffering from diseases.
4) Telemedicine :
With the help of Tele Medicine equipment doctors and nurses can examine patients in remote locations by monitoring the patient conditions such as BP, temperature etc. and give the correct medical treatment. Tele medicine is implemented with a telephone line and a computer.
5) Research and development: omputers play inevitable role in almost every branch of science and engineering. The role of computers in different fields of research and development is unavoidable. The most complex genetic problem may evaluated with the help of computers easily and can simulate actual system using a computer .The computers help in diagnosis, treatment of patients and better running of hospitals.