Recently, when discussing EMR with a colleague, I was asked about customization of different electronic medical records systems. Some of the systems available today highlight ease of use, or perhaps that templates aren’t required. This more modular approach could be sufficient within some special practices, but overall this solution seeks simplicity at the expense of [...]
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Medical fraternity is running through a purple patch. Each fortnight there is some great invention. A few of them need to undergo a testing stage and others are quite ready to begin aiding the patients. While most of the equipments and medicines are related to medical science, a few polish the infrastructure further. Still others help in creating easy routes of treatment. Medical card scanner is one such device which is of great use to the medical pool. Let’s take up its use in the niche set up of ophthalmology. Ophthalmologists are doctors of the eye. Before understanding the usage in this field, let’s finds out what a medical card scanner is. It is a device through which you can swipe a medical card and the entire data runs through its database within seconds. These can be converted into printouts immediately. The material is computer generated and thus it is extremely readable. Manually recorded data might suffer at times from poor handwriting of the operator. Medical card scanner scans image as well as data. Ophthalmologists benefit from the data related to the eye. It may include patient’s generic optical condition; power of his lens, aberrations in his retina, condition of his cornea and optic nerve among many other things. Ophthalmologists can then decide on the line of treatment. Often, once the doctors are initiated into the patient’s case history, it becomes quite easy for them to move further. Also, the images scanned may pertain to graphical images of cornea, retina, lens and various nerves. These can be quite helpful as well. In simple words, medical card scanner helps in processing data and images digitally and thus aid the medical teams immensely.
December 30th, 2009 
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December 30th, 2009 admin Medical fraternity is running through a purple patch. Each fortnight there is some great invention. A few of them need to undergo a testing stage and others are quite ready to begin aiding the patients. While most of the equipments and medicines are related to medical science, a few polish the infrastructure further. Still others [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Card Scanner, Case History, Cornea, Digitally, Fortnight, Graphical Images, Great Invention, Lens Aberrations, Medical Card, Medical Fraternity, Medical Science, Medical Teams, Medicines, Nerves, Optic Nerve, Poor Handwriting, Purple Patch, Retina, Scanner Medical, Swipe Card 1 Comment »What is Refractive Eye Surgery?
December 27th, 2009 admin Any surgery that is used to improve the refractive state of the eye and decrease the need for glasses and contact lenses is referred to as refractive eye surgery. Refractive eye surgery is most often used to treat the common vision disorders myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness) and astigmatism. There are many determining factors in choosing [...]
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