Computer programs can also help triage patients to specific medical treatment pathways, and premeds can help hospitals create algorithms to improve medical decision-making among health care providers.

New computer software has recently been created for new graduate doctors to ensure they prescribe safely from day one on the wards. The SCRIPT (Standard Computerized Revalidation Instrument for ...

Zebra Medical Vision, a computer vision startup focused on health care, has agreed to be acquired in a deal worth $200 million.

And it is clear that medical informatics has become a field of advanced research in itself. Graduates of medical informatics training programs are now involved in several commercial software research ...

Research continued. By the mid-1990s there were about a half dozen computer programs that tried to make medical diagnoses. None came into widespread use.