computer Applications in Medicine

computer Applications in Medicine

Objectives:
· Describe the Medicine s databases’ (Pub-Med).
· Describe Medical Web Sites.
· Describe Patient Management System.
· Describe introduction to SPSS Statistics.
·
Explain how the computer technologies can be used to serve medic
ine
fields.
· Identify the term “medical skills”.


Introduction
You should be able to explain the main databases used in medicine. Y
ou should
be able to describe the medical web sites and how to Patient Informati
on
System can help in medicine fields. You should also understand how
statistics
and computer technologies used to help physician.


Medicine s databases’ (Pub-Med):
PubMed: is a database containing MEDLINE, Pre-MEDLINE (citations
provided to the database from publishers before the citations are edite
d and
subject headings are added)and other literature citations created and
produced
by the National Library of Medicine.


Medical Web Sites:
Students should be able to visit more and more web site to develop his skills in
searching about medical site to update information of physician and know more
about the context of these web sites:
• National Institutes of Health
http://www.nih.gov
• National Library of Medicine (Medline)http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
•
American Medical Informatics Associationhttp://www.amia.org/
•
The international Society for computer aided surgery.
http://igs.slu.edu/
• The health level 7 committee:
http://www.hl7.org
• The European Committee for Standardization
Technical Committee for Health Informatics
http://www.centc251.org/
• Bioinformatics resources on the WEB
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/science/bioinfo.htm
• Tools for DNA gene and protein sequencing.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Tools/index.html
Some Medical Journals:
• CRITICAL REVIEWS IN MEDICAL INFORMATICS.
• HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATICS
• HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS
• INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS
• JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS
Association:
• MEDICAL INFORMATICS
• MEDICAL INFORMATICS AND THE INTERNET IN
Medicine:
• STUDIES IN HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATICS
• BIOINFORMATICS
• COMPUTERS AND BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
• COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
• COMPUTERS IN HEALTHCARE
• COMPUTERS IN HOSPITALS
• COMPUTERS IN NURSING