ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN MEDICINE.
Keywords:
information technology, confidentiality, computer, medical scienceAbstract
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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