Monitors
heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, use software to interpret the sensor information and display it in a meaningful way on a monitor.
Medication pumps
These devices are programmed to pump a certain amount of plasma, blood, saline solution, or other medication into a patient at a certain rate. The software provides the ability to control many aspects of treatment procedures.
Analysis
Many devices, such as X-ray computed tomography scanners (CT or CAT scans), measure raw data that is essentially meaningless to people. Software reinterprets this data to create images that doctors can read and understand.
Expert Systems
A variety of expert systems help clinicians and practitioners in decision making for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
Therapy delivery
The software in implantable pacemakers and defibrillators provides fault-tolerant, real-time, mission-critical monitoring of cardiac rhythms and associated therapy delivery.
Medical and healthcare educational software
Software used as an educational or study tool for health care professionals.
Medical informatics
Software for the business and informational aspect of medicine; these include electronic medical record (EMR) and electronic health record (EHR) software.
Practice Management Software
The software used to manage the business and medical aspects of a medical practice. The scope of these vary in scope from managing a specific function like a family practice to fully integrated packages in the Veterinary industry like RxWorks that include electronic medical records, pharmacy, diagnostics, electronic ordering, compliance management. The difference is because Veterinarians normally have under one roof, many functions that are distributed amongst several specialist providers in human medicine.
