Series VI: Medical Sciences – SUPPLEMENT ... - Krongres

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Bra�ov • Vol. 2 (51) - 2009
Series 6: Medical Sciences -
Supplement – Proceeding of The IV th Balkan Congress of History of Medicine
HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTER
SCIENCE IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM IN
TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRA�OV
- A STUDY CASE -
L. SANGEORZAN 1
Abstract:
Health care or medical informatics, represent an intersection between
information care, computer science and health care. In the Health Services,
computers are being introduced not only to provide direct care for the
patients but also to obtain some important information regarding the type of:
assurance, diagnosis (main or secondary) etc. The paper presents some
historical aspects of developing the applications for helping: the physician
and the patients that are in the emergency room; the students who want to
learn more about the evolution of the diesis using descriptive statistics.
Several software applications designed by the team, made up of computer
scientists, statisticians and physicians, within Transilvania University of
Brasov are described.
Key words: Descriptive statistics, HTML, PHP, Excel, Health Services
1. History
The first computer was building in
USA 1946 named ENIAC, having a weight
of 30 tons and a surface of 160 square
metres.
If in the 1950 with the medical
informatics began to take off in the USA,
in Romania, Acad. Prof. Grigore C. Moisil
formed a research group whose expertise
was the algebrical theory of automate
mechanisms (in other terms, the first steps
in computer science). Medical informatics
is a interdisciplinary domain applying
methods specific to informatics to
medicine [1].
“Medical informatics includes medical
computing, medical computer science,
computer medicine, medical electronic data
processing, medical automatic data
1 Transilvania University of Bra�ov, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
processing, medical information processing,
medical information science, medical
software engineering, and medical computer
technology.” [http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/
Health_informatics#Aspects_of_the_field]:
Medical informatics provides a new
approach of the applications in the medical
area. In 1989 the International Medical
Informatics Association (IMIA) was
established, under Swiss law as an
independent organization. This association,
IMIA, had an important role in application
of information science and technology in
the fields of healthcare and research in
medical, health and bio-informatics. Some
of the important objectives of the
association IMIA are to introduce in health
care and health research the informatics
applications. In 1976 the European