Thursday, May 24, 2012

HEALTH CARE


Healthcare is a Symptom-based and diagnostic-based treatment and prevention of physical and mental diseases, illnesses, and injuries.  Healthcare is provided by variety of professionals.  The professionals include Medical practitioners, Physical therapy, chiropractic professionals, dentistry, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, to name few.

There are many specialties in healthcare:

Allergy and Immunology
Anaesthetics
Pathology
Cardiology
Paediatric cardiology
Cardiothoracic surgery
Child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy
Clinical neurophysiology
Dermato-Venereology
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology
Geriatrics
Gynaecology and obstetrics
Health Informatics
Infectious diseases
Internal Medicine
Interventional Radiology
Vascular medicine
Microbiology
Nephrology
Neurology
Neurosurgery
Nuclear medicine
Occupational medicine
Ophthalmology
Orthopaedics
Oro-Maxillo-Facial Surgery
Otorhinolaryngology
Paediatrics
Paediatric allergology
Paediatric endocrinology and diabetes
Paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition
Paediatric haematology and oncology
Paediatric infectious diseases
Neonatology
Paediatric Nephrology
Paediatric respiratory medicine
Paediatric rheumatology
Paediatric surgery
Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
Pneumology
Psychiatry
Public Health
Radiology
Neuroradiology
Radiotherapy
General surgery
Urology
Vascular surgery

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Health Information Technology



Health in one word is state of well being.  A quest for improvement of healthcare has given rise to the idea of Health Information Technology.  Information Technology is helping in taking patient care to new horizons.  The evolution of information technology and its path into healthcare has changed the patient care senario.


Improvement of patient health care in its quality

Affordable health care

Improves the efficiency of the administration

Prevent human Errors


From Practice management Systems (PMS) to electronic medical records (EMR) and from research to government statistics, health information technology has helped patient care leaps and bounds.