Publication Date:
1982-02-12
Description:
Microelectronics and computers are in use in virtually every aspect of modern medicine. Computers are used widely in medical research, where an important need is for better microelectronic sensors for data acquisition. In medical practice, data collection from patients as well as subsequent storage, retrieval, and manipulation of data are enhanced by the computer. In medical decision-making computers improve accuracy, increase cost-efficiency, and advance understanding of the structure of medical knowledge and of the decision-making process itself. Powerful new noninvasive diagnostic instruments including x-ray tomographic scanners and ultrasonic imaging systems are based on computers. The efficiency and scope of clinical laboratory procedures and advanced analytical instruments are greatly increased by computerization, and careful application of computers has improved the interpretation of diagnostic tests, such as the electrocardiogram, and monitoring of critically ill patients. The powerful sensory, computational, memory, and display capabilities of microcomputer systems and their compact size offer new opportunities to relieve functional deficiencies associated with loss of limbs, paralysis, speech impediments, deafness, and blindness.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Meindl, J D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1982 Feb 12;215(4534):792-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7036345" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
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*Computers
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Critical Care
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Decision Making
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Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted
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*Electronics
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Humans
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Medical History Taking
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Medical Records
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Monitoring, Physiologic
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Prostheses and Implants
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Research
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Sensory Aids
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Ultrasonography
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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