Saturday, September 26, 2009

Future Healthcare industry

In medicine, the future of computer and information technology looks promising as it is still in its early stages. Computer controlled machines can imitate a human surgeon and perform surgeries. There is a possibility of Robotic surgeries. There is a lot of scope of use of Artificial intelligence in the healthcare industry.

Telemedicine is a fast growing practice in this area. It’s used to consult a health professional sitting far away via internet or conference to discuss a clinical case. It’s godsend for people who are living in remote areas with substandard facilities.

Genomics, which is a study of any organism’s genome, is making use of computers to study human genomes and is called computational genomics.

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