The Interpretation of Medical Information
via Visual Explanation
Tzuoh-Herng Sun
* Department of Visual Communication Design, Tainan Woman’s College of Arts & Technology
Abstract
Increasingly, as medical staff and as individuals, people rely on comprehensible medical systems to manage sensitive medical situations and to perform important or even critical functions. However, there has not proper interpretation of medical knowledge to communicate between medical staff and patients. That is the reason leavespatients highly anxious and lacking knowledge and understanding about their illness in contemporary environment. Most medical information systems are designed for medical staff to manage patient care. Moreover, the misunderstood information and low quality healthcare are the main reasons lead more medical quarrels than the technical faults did.
In addition, the present health care system is plagued with over or under utilization of services and errors in health care practice. And the system often lacks the full-scaled environment adaptation, integrated processes, and the cross-therapeutic capabilities needed to ensure that services are safe, cost effective, efficient and most of all patient-centered. Patients come in hospital do need perspicuous and interactive communications to comprehend his or her case instead of those abstruse medical vocabularies. Therefore, the most sensitive aspect of interpretation for individuals will become medical informatics as visualized information unravel the human body and interpret its meaning.
An efficient information system should be able to reduce a majority of these wrong medicament treatment errors. Visualized medical information design can significantly contribute to improving the presentation and transmission of medical data.
Key words: visualized medical information, medical transmission system
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