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  • Essay / health informatics - 532

    Health informatics has developed to meet the desire to apply and explore new tools for better health care (2). In the 17th century, Wilhelm Von Liebnitz promoted the idea that it might be possible to represent the entire nature of human behavior in a categorized form. This principle forms the basis on which many programmers and software developers approach coding. In the 19th century, Charles Babbage created a mechanical device for solving mathematical problems, known as the first computer, although he was not successful. In the 1890s, Herman Hollerith developed a punch card system to manage U.S. census data, demonstrating the effectiveness of microchip-free technology. This was the primary form of data entry until the 1960s(1). The first electronic computer was developed in the 1940s, known as ENIAC. It occupied a large room and operated with valves that consumed a lot of energy. Post-World War II computers increased in speed, capacity, and reliability, while decreasing in size. The mainframe computer system, a central computer with...