|
Patients
need help in understanding the language used by doctors. They also need
help in understanding what physical issues they should worry about and help in getting the right type of medical help. Even
if they know who to call, they need help in making their appointments and help in managing their treatments.
Doctors
also need help. They need help in knowing what physical issues they should be worrying
about and help in making the diagnosis based on those physical issues. They need help in choosing the right test, help in
ordering tests and treatments, and help in staying up to date.
Nurses
need help in treating patients and help in keeping the patient safe inside the medical
system.
Public health
workers need help finding out how many people have illnesses in the community.
They also need help understanding what makes people sick.
In order to get all this help, patients, doctors, nurses, and public health workers need different sorts
of help.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
- They need computer programs that can give them the help.
- They need computers, where the programs live. They need the
computers to be connected together.
- The computers themselves need to have a common language to "talk"
about medicine and to talk to each other.
In order to
create the right programs and computers, “informaticians” are needed. These are people who figure out how
computers can give patients, doctors, nurses, and public health workers the help they need. Informaticians also create the
computer programs and check to see that the program actually provides the help they were designed to give.
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
