Computers in medicine

Because of their speed, versatility and accuracy, computers play an important role in medicine. They are useful in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of public health care systems. In hospitals they can be used for scheduling admissions, for drug dosage control, patient monitoring in intensive care units and radiation therapy. They have been used with partial success in medical diagnosis. Computer aided instruction can very fruitfully supplement regular course work and hospital experience gained by medical students. In biomedical research, they have been used for studies of the structure of biomolecules, for biological signal processing, for contrast enhancement and improvement of resolution of X-ray photographs and scintiscan pictures and so on.In general, computers have been useful in improving the speed, efficiency and accuracy of existing methods, in enhancing the power of existing instruments and even making possible functions hitherto considered impossible.In India, th...