New department will help integrate technology and healthcare data
Maharashtra University for Health Sciences (MUHS) has started a new department in health informatics, which aims at bringing doctors and engineers together. The intention is to strengthen medical facilities and improve research work and statistical analysis for both public and private health sectors. It has been observed that with the frequent leaps in technology, doctors often find it hard to understand the minute details of software engineering. Then, statistics and healthcare data are often misconstrued by engineers as well.
Enrolment will begin soon for this postgraduate diploma course for both doctors and engineers, said Dr Arun Jamkar, vice chancellor of MUHS. "Seeing the lack of knowledge among both doctors and engineers, we came up with this concept and will be now running a department that will teach them health informatics. The courses will begin soon and the department will be headed by Pune-based health informatics expert Dr Rajeev Joshi," he said.
Dr Joshi said, "There will be courses in health informatics, which will include medical information of any nature as it has been observed that experts in information technology find it difficult to understand the finer details of healthcare. Doctors, on the other hand, are not trained in information technology and software development."A course in clinical engineering will also be held, focusing on treatment of various disorders, ultramodern electronic equipment, etc, along with a course in imaging technology in medical diagnosis, Joshi stated.
"At the end of the course, doctors and engineers will be given academic projects to help them conduct better research that can be put to use for electronic health records, statistical analysis, clinical purposes and hands-on training for healthcare," Joshi added.
Maharashtra University for Health Sciences (MUHS) has started a new department in health informatics, which aims at bringing doctors and engineers together. The intention is to strengthen medical facilities and improve research work and statistical analysis for both public and private health sectors. It has been observed that with the frequent leaps in technology, doctors often find it hard to understand the minute details of software engineering. Then, statistics and healthcare data are often misconstrued by engineers as well.
Enrolment will begin soon for this postgraduate diploma course for both doctors and engineers, said Dr Arun Jamkar, vice chancellor of MUHS. "Seeing the lack of knowledge among both doctors and engineers, we came up with this concept and will be now running a department that will teach them health informatics. The courses will begin soon and the department will be headed by Pune-based health informatics expert Dr Rajeev Joshi," he said.
Dr Joshi said, "There will be courses in health informatics, which will include medical information of any nature as it has been observed that experts in information technology find it difficult to understand the finer details of healthcare. Doctors, on the other hand, are not trained in information technology and software development."A course in clinical engineering will also be held, focusing on treatment of various disorders, ultramodern electronic equipment, etc, along with a course in imaging technology in medical diagnosis, Joshi stated.
"At the end of the course, doctors and engineers will be given academic projects to help them conduct better research that can be put to use for electronic health records, statistical analysis, clinical purposes and hands-on training for healthcare," Joshi added.
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