What are the applications of computers in hospitals are as follows:
The business processing system (TPS). That is, automation of departmental business processes. Such as the automation of outpatient registration, delineation of charges, issuance of medicines, inspection reports and other processes; inpatient bed management, medical advice processing, cost settlement and other processes of automation; and materials and equipment, financial and personnel and other back-office support departments, such as the automation of the business process.
Decision Support System (DSS). It is to link the data collected by TPS from various parties as a data warehouse, and access and calculate the data warehouse by mobilizing model library, method library and knowledge library to assist semi-structured or even unstructured decision-making.
Medical Information System (MIS). Includes laboratory equipment on-line systems, medical image storage and communication systems (PACS), and expert diagnostic intelligence systems.
Office automation system (OA). Including daily office affairs processing, file transfer (FTP), e-mail (E-Mail), file management and so on.
Literature search system, including the hospital collection, journal topic search and access to Medline (U.S. National Library of Medicine) through the Internet.
Maternal and child health information system.
Computer-aided diagnosis and decision-making system (CAD& CMD)
Can help doctors shorten the diagnosis time; avoid omissions; reduce labor intensity; provide other experts to diagnose and treat the opinion, in order to make a diagnosis as soon as possible, put forward treatment plans.