Category Archives: Medicine

Health Information Technology (HIT)

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Health IT is the area of IT involving the design, development, creation, use and maintenance of information systems for the healthcare industry

Health Information Technology Health information technology (HIT) is “the application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision making”. Technology Continue reading Health Information Technology (HIT)→

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)

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Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a standard for handling, storing, printing, and transmitting information in medical imaging.

DICOM Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a standard for handling, storing, printing, and transmitting information in medical imaging. It includes a file format definition and a network communications protocol. The communication protocol is an application protocol that Continue reading Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)→