What Role Do You Believe Computers Play In Medicine?

The computer has taken over all parts of our lives, medicine is of course no different. There are several ways in which the computer has improved the information available in the field of medicine. To start of people can search about the symptoms they are undergoing and find out which disease they might have this has two advantages, one that the patient would be diagnosed early and secondly the misuse of prescription especially self prescription can be avoided or at least lessened.
Further more the computer makes it easy for the patients to locate the nearest available and/or best hospital in their locality. As far as the doctors are concerned the computer has also helped them in many ways. Doctors in remote areas can contact physicians in well established areas for guidance and help related to diseases, this saves time for travel or information transfer as well as increase the ease for doing so. . The hospital staff can gather and maintain patient record and data on the computer for easy access in the future.