PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research has been dedicated in the pursuit of “HEALTH FOR ALL”. One of the ways to achieve that is to integrate informatics into healthcare delivery, education and research. The best way of spreading awareness far and wide in that regard is to make use of the World Wide Web.

Health information management is becoming increasingly important to effective and efficient health care. The informatics tools, commonly known as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools, judiciously applied to healthcare delivery, can help us to deliver more effective, more efficient and more patient-oriented health care. However, improperly used they would waste time and money, create inefficiencies, and dehumanize our interactions with each other. Healthcare delivery personnel who understand and are able to utilize health informatics tools and applications will be more empowered to deliver better healthcare.

Goal

This course is intended to introduce the basics of healthcare informatics. At the end of completion of this course, the students will be skilled in the learning objectives listed below.

Learning Objectives

1. Know about basic health informatics including electronic health / medical records (EHR/EMR), Telehealth (e-health and telemedicine), medical imaging, evidence- based medicine (EBM), standards, patient privacy and security issues.

2. Be aware of the role of hardware, software and networks used in healthcare.

3. Identify the features of a good database management system for handling patient records.

4. Learn skills in querying medical databases (including literature) relevant to clinical management and medical research and produce reports.

5. Learn basic skills in database administration activities: namely creating and adding, retrieving, updating, and deleting records (the CRUD stuff).

6. Understand basic skills required to develop databases relevant to healthcare.

7. Understand and use a hospital information system (identify the data requirements enough for a requirement analysis).

Course Coordinator

Dr. Supten Sarbadhikari, MBBS, PhD
Head, Department of Biomedical Informatics,
PSG IMS & R 

The details about this course are available at: Course Details

The Application Form can be downloaded from: Application.pdf

The next batch for the 12-week Course will commence the studies from Monday February 01, 2010.