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Healthcare Sector Organisational Structure

Allied Healthcare refers to the clinical support functions in the healthcare system including medical diagnostics, therapeutics and patient management. These support functions are critical to the overall management of patient care. Each of the core areas are broken down into the following sub sectors:

Medical Diagnostics is concerned with procedures and tests which lead to the confirmation or elucidation of a diagnosis

Therapeutics refers to treatments and therapies which aim to relieve, manage and cure patients

Patient Management refers to disciplines which manage patient care

Another area included in the allied healthcare sector is health informatics, where IT professionals are involved in healthcare information systems such as patient administration systems (PAS), picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) and radiology information systems (RIS).