Broadly speaking, "medical hardware" means that in addition to the skills and clinical experience of the medical practitioner, there is now a need to rely on "medical hardware" to support and assist in accomplishing accurate diagnosis and precise treatment. (Of course, in the past, Chinese medicine diagnosis may not need hardware, such as part of the massage, but most still need to take Chinese medicine.)
The content of medical hardware is roughly the following: all medical instruments, equipment, devices, consumables, drugs, reagents are "medical hardware", including a variety of tests that need to be done in the hospital, laboratory tests, radiology and so on, all need to be supported by "medical hardware". The first step in the process is to make sure that you have the right tools for the right job.
Medical hardware is not all related to computers: this is not necessarily. For example, small to inject with syringes, infusion sets, cotton swabs, alcohol, gauze, tape, etc., although they belong to the hardware, but with the computer has nothing to do; and for example, ordinary sphygmomanometer, ordinary electrocardiograph, ordinary X-ray machine, scalpel, surgical scissors, tweezers, etc., although they are all part of the hardware, but also has nothing to do with the computer;
At present, the relatively expensive, advanced medical instrumentation are basic Can not be separated from the electronic computer analysis, arithmetic, synthesis, conversion, reconstruction, in order to assist doctors to accurately analyze and diagnose diseases, so that the treatment of diseases to achieve the purpose of targeting. In other words, all medical equipment and computer-related equipment are relatively expensive, advanced medical equipment.