Computers In The Medical Field

Rebecca Ledford

August 14, 2009

Intro to Software –

5:50pm

Computers in the

Medical Field

Hospital AdministrationPatient MonitoringPacemakersLife Support SystemsDrug Research and

DevelopmentImaging TechnologyRemote Operative TechnologyMedical Video ConferencingNanobotsKey-hole SurgeryDNA Sequencing

How do they help?

Hospital Administration

Patient Records

Patient

Family

History

One Univer

sal Patient

File

Patient Monitoring Equipment

Allows

nurses to

leave the

room and

gives them

the freedom

to perform

other

duties.

Pacemakers and Life Support Systems

PacemakersComputers to keep the heart beating.

Life Support SystemsComputers that look after and monitor patients

who are in critical life conditions.

Drug Research and Development

Imaging Technology

Remote Operative Technology

With the help of video

phones

And remote technology,

aSurgeon would be able

to Perform a surgery,

using robotics, from the

other side of the world!

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!

Key-hole SurgeryKey-hole surgery are

operations performed inside the body without highly invasive surgery.

Usually assisted by robotic arms and extenditures.

DNA SequencingHelping to decode

the DNA of people and creatures in order to be able to specifically describe the DNA code that causes genetic disease.