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Doctors focus on informatics

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MEDICAL informatics - the use of information technology in a medical setting - is receiving increasing attention in Hong Kong.

According to Dr Wong Chun-por, seven-year chairman of the Hong Kong Society for Medical Informatics, since 1990 local technology exhibitions have increasingly displayed medical-related information technology - and Asian IT Expo '94 will be no exception.

'Every year we work with Adsale [the organiser of Asian IT Expo '94] to have medical informatics in their exhibition,' Dr Wong said.

'This year we are fortunate to have support from the Hospital Authority.' In fact, seven of the nine displays at the Medical Informatics Pavilion will be from the Hospital Authority, including pilot projects of systems to be used in Hong Kong's public hospitals.

The authority's outpatient system, which is used by many outpatient clinics, will be on display. The system provides a computerised system for appointment management and registration of patients.

A related technology being demonstrated is an optical patient card system which would allow patient medical records to be stored on a card similar to a credit card. The card could store text and image files which could then be viewed at different hospitals.

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