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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