Medical software
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In computers, medical software is a significant branch of software engineering. Many medical devices that monitor or control patients are predominantly controlled by software. The medical devices are regulated and must comply the region laws (in Europe the Medical Devices Directives)
- Monitors sarswati: heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, use software to interpret the sensor information and display it in a meaningful way on a monitor.
- Medication pumps: These devices are programmed to pump a certain amount of plasma, blood, saline solution, or other medication into a patient at a certain rate. The software provides the ability to control many aspects of treatment procedures.
- Analysis: Many devices, such as CAT scanners, measure raw data that is essentially meaningless to people. Software reinterprets this data to create images that doctors can read and understand.
- Expert Systems: A variety of expert systems have been created to indicate what should be done. These are less used than the other things just mentioned.
- Medical informatics: Software for the business and informational aspect of medicine.
- Therapy delivery: The software in implantable pacemakers and defibrillators provides fault-tolerant, real-time, mission-critical monitoring of cardiac rhythms and associated therapy delivery.
- Medical and healthcare educational software: Software used as an educational or study tool for healthcare professionals.
- EMR/EHR Software: Electronic Medical and engineering/Health Record software are automated practice management systems, designed for healthcare providers to perform their routine clinical, financial and administrative functions much efficiently and in a paperless environment.
