DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

ANDHRA PRADESH
Name : J. Srinivasa Rao
Designation : Lecturer
Branch : Electronics & Communications
Institution : Govt Polytechnic, Bellampally
Year/semester : VI semester
Subject : Analytical Instrumentation
Subject Code : AEI- 603
Topic : Computer Applications in Medicine
Duration : 50mts
Sub Topic : Patient Management
Teaching aids : Diagrams ,PPT
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 Recap

• Computer assisted medical imaging

• Computerized aid to the physically handicapped

• Medical diagnosis & decision making

• Computer applications in patient monitoring

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 Objectives

On completion of this period, you would be able to

know …

• Computer applications in Patient management

• MUMPS (Massachusetts General Hospital Multi

programming system)

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 Patient Management

• Computers have been widely applied to the problems of

patient management and record-keeping in hospitals.

• Computers have large storage facility and real time data

processing capability.

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 Reasons for Computer based systems in
medical profession system.

• Development in word processing equipment with user

friendly features.

• Developments in voice and optical character

recognition.

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• It is possible to collect data about diagnosis, therapy,
actiology, and prognosis for any specified required group
of patients.

• Development of the tree structure of viewed data which

gives access to substantial databases.

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 MUMPS (Massachusetts General
Hospital Multi programming system)

• MUMPS is a patient management system in which

computers based systems are used.

• A detailed file is created which includes information

about biochemistry ,radio therapy, haematology,
histopathology, nuclear medicine, pharmacology and
surgery.

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• MUMPS specially designed to meet medical
requirements.

• MUMPS differ from structured languages such as

FORTRAN,PASCAL and COBOL

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• Development of LIST and PROLOG which are two
favoured languages for Artificial Intelligence.

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) is major break through in

the field of non numeric data processing.

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• Analysis of patient data is now becoming possible .

• Normally in big hospitals, a central powerful computer

will be connected to a number of small computers .

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 Summary

In this period, you have learnt about

• Computer applications in Patient management

• MUMPS (Massachusetts General Hospital Multi

programming system)

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 Quiz
• In Computerized patient management which of the
following software used

a) FORTRAN

b) MUMPS

c) COBOL

d) PASCAL

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 Frequently asked Questions

• Explain about the computer application in patient

management.

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