ICT in healthcare

MRI

CAT

Advantages

Disadvantages

What is it?

Magnetic Resonance imaging

Tube surrounded by a circular magnet

uses magnetism, radio waves and a computer to create an image of a body.

What is it?

X-ray image

a computer controls the motion of the x-ray source and detectors

also called a CT scan

Highly detailed and very accurate

painless for the people getting scanned

very precise

usually quite expensive

Quite loud

need a large electricity supply

Gives the doctors a clear image of what they are scanning

Expert systems

What is an expert system?

Artificial intelligence

Parrallel processors

An ICT system that mimics the decision making of a human

what is it?

what can it do?

Computer programmes that learn to act like the human brain through experience

draw deductions

produce new information

modify rules or write new rules

what are they?

these are computers that are able to do many things at once, they act similar to the human brain in this way