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Health Software
Medical software is any software item or system used within a medical context. This can include: * Standalone software used for Medical diagnosis, diagnostic or Therapy, therapeutic purposes. * Software used by health care providers to reduce paperwork and offer digital services to patients, e.g., a patient portal. * Software embedded in a medical device (often referred to as "medical device software"). * Software that drives a medical device or determines how it is used. * Software that acts as an accessory to a medical device. * Software used in the design, production, and testing of a medical device (or) * Software that provides quality control management of a medical device. History Medical software has been in use since at least since the 1960s, a time when the first computerized information-handling system in the hospital sphere was being considered by Lockheed Corporation, Lockheed. As computing became more widespread and useful in the late 1970s and 1980s, the concept of "m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Software
Software consists of computer programs that instruct the Execution (computing), execution of a computer. Software also includes design documents and specifications. The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital computers in the mid-20th century. Early programs were written in the machine language specific to the hardware. The introduction of high-level programming languages in 1958 allowed for more human-readable instructions, making software development easier and more portable across different computer architectures. Software in a programming language is run through a compiler or Interpreter (computing), interpreter to execution (computing), execute on the architecture's hardware. Over time, software has become complex, owing to developments in Computer network, networking, operating systems, and databases. Software can generally be categorized into two main types: # operating systems, which manage hardware resources and provide services for applicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
