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- PMID: 8470690
Trends in computer hardware and software
F M Frankenfeld. Am J Hosp Pharm. 1993 Apr.
Abstract
Previously identified and current trends in the development of computer systems and in the use of computers for health care applications are reviewed. Trends identified in a 1982 article were increasing miniaturization and archival ability, increasing software costs, increasing software independence, user empowerment through new software technologies, shorter computer-system life cycles, and more rapid development and support of pharmaceutical services. Most of these trends continue today. Current trends in hardware and software include the increasing use of reduced instruction-set computing, migration to the UNIX operating system, the development of large software libraries, microprocessor-based smart terminals that allow remote validation of data, speech synthesis and recognition, application generators, fourth-generation languages, computer-aided software engineering, object-oriented technologies, and artificial intelligence. Current trends specific to pharmacy and hospitals are the withdrawal of vendors of hospital information systems from the pharmacy market, improved linkage of information systems within hospitals, and increased regulation by government. The computer industry and its products continue to undergo dynamic change. Software development continues to lag behind hardware, and its high cost is offsetting the savings provided by hardware.
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MeSH terms
Current trends in hardware and software include the increasing use of reduced instruction-set computing, movement to the UNIX operating system, the development of large software libraries, microprocessor-based smart terminals that allow remote validation of data, speech synthesis and recognition, application generators … There are five major themes in contemporary software platform evolution: Linux and open-source software. … Enterprise software. Web services and service-oriented architecture. We look at seven hardware trends: the emerging mobile digital platform, grid computing, virtualization, cloud computing, green computing, high-performance/power-saving processors, and
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Which is a
part of contemporary software platform trends?
What are the current contemporary hardware platform?
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The principle issues in managing hardware and software assets include capacity planning and scability. Capacity planning is the process of predicting when a computer hardware system becomes saturated.
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- Artificial Intelligence [AI] and Machine Learning. …
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- Edge Computing. …
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- Internet of Things [IoT] …
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- Cybersecurity.