Computers play an important role in the medical field by managing patient records, billing systems, medical imaging, and more. Health informatics applies information science to healthcare by using computers to store and analyze patient data to aid diagnosis and treatment. Computers are used for tasks like maintaining electronic medical records, performing scans like MRI and CT, assisting with surgery, and monitoring devices like pacemakers. While computers provide benefits like improved record keeping and analysis, their use also presents challenges such as high costs and need to ensure security of electronic patient information.

1. COMPUTERS IN MEDICAL FIELD

2. INFLUENCE

3. Information and
Informatics
 Information
Technology is the
use of
hardware, softwa
re, services, and
supporting
infrastructure to
manage
information.
 Informatics is the
scientific field that
deals with
biomedical
information, data
and knowledge -
their
storage, retrieval
and optimal use
for problem-
solving and
decision-making

4.  Health informatics is a discipline at the intersection
of information science, computer science, and
health care.
Health informatics

5. ROLE OF COMPUTERS IN MEDICAL
FIELD
 Maintaining Record System
 Billing and Financial System
 Analysis
 Material Management
 Radiology
 Clinical Management
 Tracking Patients

6. Computers for Information Handling
Computer store can serve as the best way of
housing all the medical data.
In medical offices, all the accounting processes
are also computerized assuring a safer record.

7. Computers for Information Handling
Computers are also used for recording the
medical history of patients.

8. The database of all the medical data
is known as Electronic Medical
Records(EMR) or Electronic Health
Records(HER)

9. Computers in Scanning and Imaging
Many of the modern methods of scanning and
imaging are largely based on the computer
technology.
Examples of Scanning and Imaging:
MRI(Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
CT Scan
Ultrasound

10. CT scan

11. X-rays
Computers make their role perfect in all types of
clinical image processing like CT scan X-rays
and more accurately

12. Surgery with help of
Computers

14. Pacemakers and Life
Support Systems

15. Pacemakers
 Computers to keep the heart beating.
Life Support Systems
 Computers that look after and monitor patients who
are in critical life conditions.

16. Nanobots!!!
 Nanobots are
molecular scale
robots that could be
programmed to
deliver medicine,
destroy specific
cells, or even just sit
and wait for a
problem to occur
inside the body!

17. DNA Sequencing
 Helping to
decode the DNA
of people and
creatures in order
to be able to
specifically
describe the DNA
code that causes
genetic disease.

18. ADVANTAGES
 Computers are mostly used in every organization. Computer plays different
roles in different fields now a day’s 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-Ray’s everything
is made possible so easily only through computers.
 A part from administration purposes computers are used in performing
surgeries. Laparoscopic 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 patient’s body.

19. 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.
 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.