Computers are used extensively in healthcare. Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare workers use computers to record patient notes, transmit orders, view patient profiles, and manage overall hospital administration. Computers also play a key role in diagnostic imaging like CT scans, MRI scans, echocardiograms, and ultrasounds. They analyze medical test results, perform functions like EKGs, and guide minimally invasive surgeries. Computers further aid in pharmacy management, patient record keeping, and accessing medical information online. Overall, computers have become integral to patient care and healthcare delivery across multiple departments and specialties.

1. COMPUTER
APPLICATIONS IN
HEALTH CARE
PRESENTED BY MADIHA DURRANI

2. Computers are
EVERYWHERE
 Doctors use computers to record
progress notes.
 Nurses use computers to transmit
orders to other departments and in
patient care.
 Pharmacists use computers to order
medication and to view patient profile.
 For the most part, ALL HEALTHCARE
WORKERS use computers.

3. HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION
 Patient administration services
i.e. patient registration,
admission, transfer, discharge
etc.
 Diagnostic and therapeutic
services such as clinical
laboratories, pharmacy services,
radiology etc.
 Financial and other services i.e.
 invoicing, procurement, and
staff management functions

4. Patient registration module

5. MEDICAL LABORATORY
 Computers are used to analyze DNA
• Blood
• Urine
 Runs specimens
 Test for disease and genetic disorders

9. ELECTROCARDIOGRAM
 Computer provides a printout of
electrical activity of patients heart.
 Computer can also read the EKG,
tells the reader what the EKG means.
 An EKG can be done at a remote
location and sent to a doctor
thousands of miles away.

10. ECHOCARDIOGRAM
 Computer directs sound waves
into the heart, then converts the
reflection of waves into an
image of the heart.
 Used to reveal heart problems
 Valve problems
 Defects in the heart wall etc.

11. ECHOCARDIOGRAM

12. COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY (CT)
 Shows cross section views
through computerized body
scanner
 Allows to see bone and tissues
 Help us to find tumors
 It generates three dimensional
images, which can be viewed on
a computer monitor, printed on
film or transferred to electronic
media.

13. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI)
 It’s a computerized body
scanner that uses nuclear
magnets instead of x- rays.
 Patient is placed in a large,
circular ,magnet that measures
the activity of hydrogen ions
and convert it to a picture.
 It allows to see tumor and
blood circulation

14. ULTRASONOGRAPHY
 Uses high frequency sound
waves
 Body parts are viewed on
computer screen and printed on
photo paper
 Used during pregnency

15. KEY- HOLE SURGERY
Operations performed inside the
body without highly invasive
surgery i.e. laparoscopy
Computers are used to see the
internal body parts during
procedure

16. ROLE OF COMPUTERS IN PHARMACY
 Patient record management
 Entries of medication orders
 Review of patient medication
profile
 Inventory control
 Computerizing the dispensing
and prescription process
 To record drug- drug
interactions and ADRS
 Drug therapy monitoring and
problem detection

17. CONT…
 Medical journals, diagnose papers, and information about certain diseases
can be found on internet.
 Different computer software's can use to diagnose a disease.
 Computers are being used for 3-D images in medicine.
 Experts opinions can be obtained via internet.

18. CONCLUSION
COMPUTERS PLAY AN
IMPORTANT ROLE IN
HEALTHCARE TODAY AND
IN FUTURE.

19. THANKS