PG Diploma in Telemedicine and Medical Informatics

Catering to the growing need for tech-savvy professionals in Telemedicine and Medical Informatics, this course attempts to bridge the gap between healthcare professionals and medical technology.

Duration

6 Months - Regular

Course Objectives

Designed and formulated by professionals well versed in Information Technology and Medicine, this course provides:

• The knowledge to identify, plan, implement and use computer-based information systems in all areas of the healthcare industry - including hospitals and government bodies
• An understanding of various types of information systems used in the healthcare context
• Awareness of the role of hardware and software in healthcare situations
• An understanding of the system development lifecycle, data and process modeling techniques and the skills to use these in the analysis of healthcare systems
• The skills to develop healthcare related databases
• The skills to evaluate health information systems successfully.

Study Design

The course methodology involves a combination of lectures and hands-on computer exercises. Participants will be introduced to the conceptual and technical components of Medical Informatics and Telemedicine systems and operations.

The conceptual components include

• Principles of database design
• Human-computer interfaces
• Medical vocabularies and coding systems
• Medical decision analysis methods
• Evaluation methods in Medical Informatics
• Strategies for designing and managing clinical information systems.

The technical components include

• Use of the Internet for bio-medical applications
• Current and emerging wide area network technologies
• Use of literature and molecular sequence databases
• Enterprise-wide clinical data systems
• Systems for Telemedicine.

Hands-on workshops to impart personal computer skills such as creation of World Wide Web pages, linkage of web pages to databases, and use of digital multimedia and imaging solutions also form a part of the program.

Faculty Guidance

Our faculty is engaged in routine day-to-day practice of Medicine and Information Technology – and the course material contains information tested in the frontline and practice situation.