Medical Software - Types of Medical Software

Types of Medical Software

Monitors
heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate. Software is used 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 X-ray computed tomography scanners (CT or CAT scans), 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 help clinicians and practitioners in decision making for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
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 health care professionals.
Medical informatics
Software for the business and informational aspect of medicine; these include electronic medical record (EMR), electronic health record (EHR), practice management, and the analytics software that works with these systems.

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