Multimedia applications in health care

Health care emphasizes quality patient care at minimal cost, education for training future health care professionals and creating patient and community health awareness, and research focused on new discoveries for diagnostic and therapeutic methods and procedures. Multimedia technology helps implement these aspects by facilitating the shift from the conventional ways to the new discoveries. Multimedia applications like hospital information systems (HIS) and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) opens the door for the health care industry to use methods such as wide-area networks, databases, and telemedicine to improve health care practices.