Center for Medical Electronics launches medical informatics Software

The Center for Medical Electronics at Anna University has launched two medical informatics software, pertaining to Cardiology and Obstetrics.

The Integrated Cardiac Information System, which has a centralized cardiac multimedia database, integrates every department of the hospital using a graphical user interface platform. Not only does the software have provisions for the acquisition of data about the patient, processing and recognizing the data but also for diagnosing the disease based on the data and then prescribing the treatment. Using this software, doctors can easily access records of ECGs and other imaging technologies such as echocardiograms and angiograms of the patients if hospitals are internally connected. The software also has multimedia presentation and simulation capabilities to enhance the quality of patient awareness programs in hospitals.

The Center has developed the software as well as the hardware for monitoring uterine and foetal activities. The software for monitoring uterine activities, developed in Visual C++, allows for non-invasive external recording of uterine activities in a multichannel format from which an image is generated with different colors according to the level of uterine activity.

Software developed in `C' calculates the foetal heart rate and its variance with the average foetal heart rate for a selected period. 

The Center has also come up with a Real Time Trans-telephonic ECG monitoring facility for hospitals with Internet connectivity. Programmed by the Center, it uses the Digital Signal Processor developed by Texas Instruments.