ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN MEDICAL SCIENCE.
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Information technology (IT) is the application of computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data, often in the context of a business or other enterprise. Today information technology is used in wide range
of fields and one of the upcoming fields is of Medical Science, which is known as Health Information Technology (HIT).
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