1. 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 , West Bengal, India

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. Potentials Institutes where Health Informatics May Be Offered

9. 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

10. 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)

11. 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)

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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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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Cloud & Emerging IT Lab,
Raiganj University, India