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Google Search Engine are rapidly use by patients and doctors to get medical information every day. Worldwide web-based search engines such as Google are becoming the latest tools in clinical medicine, and doctors in training need to become proficient in their use. Useful information on even the rarest medical syndromes can now be found and digested within a matter of minutes by using Google.

Web based search engines such as Google are becoming the latest tools in clinical medicine, and doctors in training need to become proficient in their use. Google was used for 45 percent of U.S. Web searches in September, according to ComScore Networks Inc., a market researcher in Reston, Virginia. Unlike clinical decision support programs, Google, the world’s most popular Internet search engine, is easier to use and is available free of charge.

Sometime doctors face difficult diagnostic cases and obscure situation like Cushing’s syndrome  and Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases. For this case Google provide more than three billion of medical articles that help the doctors to find out right diagnosis. The researchers, whose findings are published online by the British Medical Journal, suggest Google is likely to be a useful aid for conditions with unique symptoms and signs that can easily be used as search terms.

Google searches found the correct diagnosis in 15 (58 per cent) of cases. Respiratory and sleep physician Dr Hangwi Tang. A team of Australian doctors Goggled the symptoms of 26 cases for a study in the New England Journal of Medicine. In 15 cases, the web search came up with the right diagnosis, the paper published on the British Medical Journal website reports. While doctors carry a huge amount of medical information in their heads, they may need to seek further help if they come up against an unusual case.


The researcher from different countries of the world are research for various human diseases and diagnostic cases and when they success they publish their article in web. It will help the doctors, researcher and also patient to knowing the syndrome of disease. The researchers believe that as medical information is expanding at a speed with which doctors will never be able to keep up, It is estimated that an average doctor needs to carry two million facts in his/her memory to assist in diagnosing illnesses. But Google provide more information that will help the doctor to right diagnosis. Doctors have a very wide knowledge when it comes to diagnosing conditions but the patients would be concerned if they were using website to diagnose people.

Google, say the team, is easy to use, useful and an excellent aid in finding the correct diagnoses for conditions with unique symptoms and signs. They also add that using Google in this way was only considered reliable for health care professionals with good medical knowledge.

Dr. Maulik is Medical Informatics Functional Consultant or Healthcare Informatics Functional Consultant. Dr Maulik can also be called as Medical Domain Expert in Information Technology and can be hired as Healthcare IT Consultant. Dr Maulik is qualified medical informatics functional consultant with Diploma in Health care Informatics. He has knowledge of medical standards like HL7 and DICOM. Also, Dr Maulik as medical IT consultant, has basic knowledge of computer languages such as HTML,XML, JAVA, C# etc. Healthcare functional consultant Dr Maulik is also acquainted with ORACLE and .net to work upon.

The world is getting computerized and no field is left aloof. Medical science, being the most vital approach for curing several health ailments, has also been highly influenced by software that not only helps in managing the health care center but can also assist doctors in diagnosing and treating the diseases. You can find Medical Informatics Functional Consultant, who is all about a doctor good at advising the IT experts about how to make medical software that would save the life of the patients rather than putting them into the danger.

Why Medical Informatics Functional Consultant?

I am a doctor and ever since I learned about computers, I am passionate about it. As the luck would have it, I was put in medical science sacrificing my mania towards those wonderful machines that would simply change the world. I did not leave computers fully but my medical studies beside; I continued playing with computers then. Anyway, let me cut the crap and directly get into the topic of what is Medical Informatics functional consultant or health care informatics functional consultant…

Have we ever thought about how computers are useful in medical science? Today, these machines have become integral part of our lives –whether office or personal. In the field of medical science, instruments and devices that work on or for human body have computers attached –one or the other way. For instance, the machines for MRI or CT scan have computers in them. The entire laboratory works on computers and hi-tech software that detect smallest particle or organism. So in surgery, right from endoscope to live Echo Cardio machine, all have computers and software in them.

The seriousness comes here –when the IT guys develop any software for machines, they work fine all time but when they fail, they just stop working or at the most crash the system. Nevertheless, in medical software, the object is HUMAN and not just machine crashing what makes the life lost! A computer attached with patient in Intensive Cardiac Care Unit would push certain medication automatically when the parameters of patient up or down. This would bring the vital parameters in normal range –imagine a bug in this! The machine would certainly inject without knowing the actual reading and the patient would simply collapse.

An unofficial survey reveals that there are as many as 75000 patients die due to bugs in medical software, which is quite terrible. Also, the worst thing is there is no certification or law that holds the makers of medical or health care software responsible for any mortalities occurring in hospitals and healthcare centers due to fault in software.

As a part of my academic studies in PG Diploma in Medical Informatics, I came across dozens of software developed specially for health care centers and hospitals –unfortunately they all have blunders in them! Though developed by so called reputed IT companies, they seemed to me the threats than helping hands!

While entering the data, I could enter 700 pulse per minute, 250 mmHg Systolic Blood pressure and lot of such data that would simply misguide the reader or the software itself.

The problem is here

Till date, all the software for medical science has been developed by engineers –IT experts those are veteran in their own fields but quite unaware about what all the medical data is. One of the faculties from IT background told me that they learned the actual position of X-RAY of chest (which is upside and which one is down) to be uploaded on their software after three years when a doctor said that he has to rotate image every time he uploads the X-Ray onto the software!

While making the software for anything that is related to medical science, a doctor or health care provider must be present! This is just to ensure that the software would not have blunders in it. Across the world, local governments are now implementing the rules that all health centers must have computers to store the records of patients and hence, the software for medical and surgical matter has come into picture.

Whether feeding a data of patients, put a machine to diagnose the disease or monitor/treat the patients, software have encroached the medical science. Gone are the days when you could find simple devices around the patient as today, hi-tech gadgets and medical instruments around the patients are vital tools that save the life and constantly take care of the patients.

You can hold the neck of manufacturer if your newly purchased footwear get torn within the warranty periods but you cannot even ask to explain the bug that is present in medical software that might have killed hundreds of patients!

Medical Informatics Functional Consultant

Medical Informatics Functional Consultant or Healthcare Informatics Functional Consultant is a person who is being taught several computer languages (such as C, C#, Java, XML, HTML) and applications such as ORACLE (SQL etc). As a person from medical background (doctor), he knows the seriousness of medical data to deal with. Sitting with IT experts, he can guide how software should behave and what all it should contain. Also, keeping Medical Informatics Functional Consultant while making healthcare software comes up with FAR BETTER product.

Health care Informatics Consultant can visit the hospital or health care center and learn what all is required by physicians or surgeons. He can then have words with administrator of the center and then collect the SRPs and other important information that he would convey to the team leader in medical software product at his company.

Medical Informatics Functional Consultant would also have knowledge of HL7 and DICOM for betterment of the software product.

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