COMPUTER DEVICES AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR MEDICINE

Abstract

Information technologies and computer devices are modern and very useful tools, which are widely and successfully applied in various areas of human activity and social life, including medicine and health care. Adoption of new information technologies and modern devices in medicine causes increasing of quality and efficiency of medical assistance and in such way lets to decrease the number of complications and unfavourable outcomes, to promote socioeconomic progress and to increase the overall quality of life. New information technologies (IT communicator, remote healthcare monitor) and computer devices (ECG device with vessels system evaluation, and digital phonendoscope) for medical application, developed in Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics in cooperation with Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, are considered. Proposed devices refer to diagnostic and measuring tools. In spite of fast application of new diagnostic technologies and devices, in most cases it is very important and reasonable to have direct contact between doctor and patient or injured person. Proposed information technology, IT communicator, helps to simplify communication between doctors and patients and increase treatment efficiency beginning from the first contact. The main areas of communicator usage are family and emergency medicine, where it is necessary to support the first contact of doctors with patients (with voice limitation) and get information about patient state, for example, during the preliminary examination of patients and diagnosing. Proposed remote healthcare monitors help doctors to monitor state of their patients in remote mode and prevent possible ill health. Application of proposed computer devices and information technologies in medicine give possibility to improve the quality of life of risk group people and giving timely medical aid to health impairment patients.