Health Informatics Domain and its Development with potentialities of proposed MTech-Health Information Sciences for sustainable Public Health Systems Paper ID: VC000317 Dr. Prantosh K. Paul Department of Computer & Information Science Raiganj University, Raiganj-733134, West Bengal, India

Health Informatics: Basics Health Informatics is a professional domain which deals with the computation as well as information management utilizations in the health related purpose. The Field is also known as Health Information Science in international context. Health Informatics and its uses are quite old though in Health Informatics utilizations are in initial stage in many context and countries. Proper management as well as governmental initiatives and educational opportunities etc are limited till for several reasons. Health Informatics may put healthy attendance and role in betterment and fulfilment of health and medicinal requirement. Health Informatics is ultimately responsible for the smart and dedicated information systems creation and development.

Health Informatics & Similar Fields Health and Medical Data Management. Medical Big Data. Medical Data Analytics. Health Data Intelligence. Health Big Data Sciences.

Objectives of the Study To Know the areas of Health Informatics To Know the core & allied areas of Health Informatics To Learn the potential educational Programs in Health Informatics (Internationally & India) To dig out the possible programs in the fields. To learn about the Proposed first ever program on MTech- Health Information Science To learn about the SWOT of HIS.

Few Health Informatics Foundations (International & India) American Medical Informatics Association International Medical Informatics Association Canada’s Health Informatics Association European Federation for Medical Informatics Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics Australasian College of Health Informatics Health Informatics Society in Australia South African Health Informatics Association Japan Association for Medical Informatics Brazilian Society of Health Informatics

Indian Association for Medical Informatics (IAMA) Established in 1993 Provides Membership Organizes Conferences and Events Promoting R&D Promoting Utilizations of Medical Informatics Publishing Journal (IJMI: Since 2004)

Few Popular Health Informatics Program (International): Data Science Focus Universities Running Programs Type Swansea University MSc Health-Data Science On-Campus (Full or Part Time) The University of Manchester, London University College London, London MSc-Data Science for Research in Health and Biomedicine Saint Louis University, Spain MS- Health Data Science Harvard University, US MSc- Health Data Science Lancaster University, UK MSc-Data Science (Health)

Potentials Institutes where Health Informatics May Be Offered

Few Programs on Health Informatics (India) Masters Program in Health Informatics Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita University, Tamilnadu MSc in Medical Informatics Open to Health related graduates College of Allied Sciences, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka MSc in Health Informatics Open to Health/ Computing related graduates MBA- Health Information Administration Public Health Foundation of India (Indian Institute of Public Health), Hyderabad MSc-Health Informatics Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Rajasthan MSc- Health Informatics Open to any graduates

Proposed & Possible Programs Possible Degrees: Engineering Context BTech/BE/MTech/ME- IT & Health Informatics BTech/BE/MTech/ME -Medical Information Sciences & Cheomo-informatics BTech/BE/MTech/ME - Information Technology (Health Informatics & Cloud) BTech/BE/MTech/ME -Computer Science (Health Informatics & Tele-systems) BTech/BE/MTech/ME -Information Science (Health Informatics)

BSW/MSW (Health Information Systems) Possible Programs : Humanities Context BA/MA (Health & Medical Information Systems) BA/MA MA Public Health and Informatics BA/MA MA Public Health Information Management BA/MA MA Sociology (Health Informatics) BA/MA MA Social Work (Health Informatics) BSW/MSW (Health Information Systems)

Possible Degrees: Engineering Context BCA/MCA (Health & Telemedicine) BCA/MCA (Health Information Systems) BCA/MCA (Medical Informatics) BCA/MCA (Health & Telemedicine)

Proposed Core Programs: MTech-Health Information Sciences Name of the proposed papers Credit of the Paper Lab [Yes/ No] Industrial Training [Yes/No] Possible Departments; if not possible In house Semester 1/ Year 1 Informatics and Computing 4 No In House is possible Emerging Information Services & Medicine 2 Yes Health Science: Basics DBMS and KMS Preferably at Industries or Finishing Schools Information Management and Analytics

Name of the proposed papers Credit of the Paper Lab [Yes/ No] Industrial Training [Yes/No] Possible Departments; if not possible In house Semester 2/ Year 1 Knowledge Economy and Public Health 4 No In House is possible DBMS (Advanced) Yes Yes, may be in IT Company/Offices If Needed/ Possible in IT/ Computing Department Human Anatomy &Fundamentals of Epidemiology Computing Networks (Heath) Yes, may be institutional of external offices Cloud Computing & Virtualization: Health Perspectives Yes, may be in CISCO lab

Name of the proposed papers Credit of the Paper Lab [Yes/ No] Industrial Training [Yes/No] Possible Departments; if not possible In house Semester 3/ Year 2 Web Technologies & Health 4 No If Needed/ Possible in Health Science/ IT Department Theories of Medical Diagnosis and Treatment Yes Health Information Policy 2 Health System and Hospital Management Advance Technologies in Health Informatics- Practice 6

Semester 4/ Year 2 Name of the proposed papers Credit of the Paper Lab [Yes/ No] Industrial Training [Yes/No] Possible Departments; if not possible In house Semester 4/ Year 2 Usability Engineering & Heath Systems 4 Yes If Needed/ Possible in Health Science/ IT Department Telemedicine and Internet Systems Indian Health Systems 2 No Health and Development If Needed/ Possible in Health Science/ Management/ IT Department Future Medical Technologies with Information Science 3 Dissertation 6 Based on Topic

Concluding Remarks India is now become more and more economic enriched country in terms of other developing countries. Several initiatives taken in recent years no doubt will impact the growth of the organizations and institutions, and health organization not an exception. Few Concern may be- Health Informatics programs may be offered as a Bachelor degree with BA (H) /BSc (H)/ BCom (H) in or similar Masters program as per need. Program may also offer as MS (Research)/ MPhil level. Here several areas of specialization may start such as Big Data Management, Health Intelligent Systems etc. MTech (Research) is possible in the scientific organization and also MTech (Industrial) at the industries as per the latest international trends. Health Informatics programs need much interactions with the governmental agencies and organization for better and complete development of public health. New programs and majors may be started as twining programs with fully flexible credit systems. Emerging specializations and areas may be taught at the industries or by the industrial units.

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