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Computer Technologies in Healthcare - Coggle Diagram
Computer Technologies in Healthcare
Overview of technology in healthcare
Computer technology is a driving force behind healthcare
improvements – it has improved healthcare a lot and will continue to improve healthcare
Healthcare is the organized provision of
medical care to individuals and communities
Healthcare software/applications
AI in healthcare
Healthcare dashboards
Disease modelling & outbreak
predictions
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics
Also known as computational
biology, computational genomics, genomic data science
Combines biology, computer
science, and statistics
Examples of bioinformatics
software:
Sequence search software - Sequence analysis software
Scientists are tracking and
investigating COVID-19 genetic material
Genomic sequencing software
– NVIDIA Parabricks
AI in healthcare
In healthcare, using AI
To mine and manage medical data
Using AI to develop new
medicine/drugs
XtalPI
predicts the properties of small
-molecule candidates for drug design and development
Healthcare data size is massive
(trillions of data points)
Using AI to assist in surgeries
Hospitals use robots to assist in minimally
-invasive procedures to open heart surgeries
• Using AI to mine and manage
medical data
Tempus - collect & analyse medical
data for research & treatment
• Using AI to predict and diagnose
diseases
PathAI
– cancer diagnosis & individualized treatments
Using AI to detect or predict
outbreaks of infectious diseases
Using AI to detect or predict
outbreaks of infectious diseases
Healthcare dashboards
A healthcare dashboard is a
modern analytics tool
Analytics: results/information from
systematic analysis of data
Example of dashboards:
• Hospital KPI dashboard
Dashboards/sites that show how
infectious disease such as COVID
-19 is spreading around the world
Disease modelling & outbreak prediction
Using computer technology and data to
predict when and where disease outbreaks might occur
The Spatiotemporal Epidemiological
Modeler (STEM) Project
Forecasting the coronavirus’s
spread using machine-learning
M
-Health
M-Health is short for mobile health
It is the medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices
smartphones
Healthcare personnel use mobile
devices and mobile apps
• Can access any information they need from their mobile devices
– drug information, research and studies,
patient history/records, etc.
• Allows practitioners to complete
task in location or away from the computer
Common m-health applications
Education and awareness
Diagnostic and treatment support
M
-health usage benefits:
help people stick to their medication
regimen by tracking pills they have and have not taken
Mobile-phone based quarantine monitoring
South Korea’s Ministry of the
Interior and Safety developed a smartphone app to track those
who have been ordered to self quarantine at home
Mobile-phone based contact tracing technologies
• Smartphone app that tracks user’s
whereabouts and contact history
Wearable technology in healthcare
Technology devices worn on or in the body
Used to track wearer’s vital signs, or health and fitness related data, location, etc.
• Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ have
embedded blood pressure monitoring sensor
Healthcare IoT
• Also known as Internet of
Medical Things (IoMT)
Consists of medical devices and
applications connected to healthcare IT systems via the
Internet
3D printing
3D printing is also known as
additive manufacturing
Electronic health/medical records
Using computers and mobile
devices to maintain and access patient records
These electronic records can be used
for:
• Schedule appointments
• Update patient records
Health information system
It is an information system designed to manage healthcare data
It is an interdisciplinary field that applies
IT to enhance healthcare delivery, support biomedical research, and foster
education of health professionals and the public
Medical imaging technologies
These are technologies for creating visual representations of the
human body’s interior
Computerized tomography (CT scan)
CT scan combines a series of XRay images taken from different angles around the human body
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
MRI uses a magnetic field, radio
waves and computer technology to create detailed images of the
organs and tissues within the human body
Computer-assisted surgery
Also known as:
• Computer-aided surgery, computer-assisted intervention, image-guided surgery, surgical navigation
Robotic surgery
Also known as robotically-assisted
surgery (RAS）