In the past years, very few people in India could agree with idea of managed care in the hospitals. But looking at the condition of most of the hospitals in our country and standard of healthcare that is being provided to the public / patients, it has become absolutely essential to put the responsibility of management of clinical / medical information in the hands of the qualified hospital managers / administrator / system analyst. An IT engineer without exposure to handle the medical information cannot handle healthcare IT infrastructure in the hospital settings where hospital information management system is available. In the government set ups they are more or less dependent upon clerical staff. The result is often gross mismanagement and dissatisfaction on the part of patients. The sincerity of the clinicians can hardly be doubted but hospital gets its goodwill with the overall administration and performance of every staff member.

This course aims to familiarize students on both theoretical and practical aspect of digital library activities familiarizing them a variety of different formats and approaches. This course will examine the structure organization and structure of health science information. It will review the issue involved in provision of health primary services fill the information needs of health professional. Different library models will be reviewed. Students will be introduced to wide variety of print and electronic references sources in health science and to see these sources in context of specialized information needs in different user groups. The course will also include material of particular relevance to hospital libraries and to a consumer health and patient education libraries. It will demonstrate and exemplify current activities in the medical digital library field. The course will give hands on practice.
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Diploma in Nursing Informatics

 Nursing informatics is the multidisciplinary scientific endeavour of analyzing, formalizing and modelling how nurses collect and manage data, process data into information and knowledge, make knowledge-based decisions and inferences for patient care, and use empirical and experiential knowledge to in order to broaden the scope and enhance the quality of their professional practice.
Nursing informatics has assumed a role in healthcare that ensures that data collected by nurses along with clinical knowledge is structured in a way that it is acceptable and accessible to other areas of healthcare.
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Diploma in Public Health Informatics

 This course presents the knowledge of Informatics infrastructure, technology and tools and their application in the field of public health. Public health informatics deals with the collection, verification and utilization of data related to preventive, promotive health status of population, environment. Public health informatics also focuses on using this data to generate knowledge in support of public health practice and policy development / dissemination. The intended audience comprises professionals interested to make a career public health care and Health System.
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Diploma in Telemedicine

E-health relates to application of Information and Communication technology in healthcare which has wider ramifications e.g. Telemedicine, Electronic Medical Record ( EMR), Hospital Information Management System ( HIMS), Picture Archival Communication System ( PACS) etc. This is an emerging area of application of Information & Communication Technology in health sector. Telemedicine is a bright example of fusion of information and communication and health sciences having great potential to meet access to expert’s advice from a distance in a resource crunch environment, remote care delivery, distance education & skill development of healthcare professionals resulting in improvement of health system. In India, telemedicine is being adopted by many large hospitals in both public and private sectors. Telemedicine infrastructure has also been developed in district and medical college level hospitals across the country. Government of India is also promoting adoption of telemedicine into existing healthcare delivery system which is evident from budget allocation during the 11th Five Year Plan period. It has also constituted a National Task Force for Telemedicine in the year 2005 to address various issues like technology, standard, application to improve rural healthcare, e-CME etc. Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication & IT and Department of Space ( ISRO) are also engaged in R&D and application related projects. World Health Organization is also promoting adoption of ICT in health sector and has laid down telemedicine in his district facilities guidelines. As a result, Health Information Technology is rapidly emerging as a distinct discipline in it’s own merit. However, there is great challenge in development of human resources in this field. In the near future there is going to immense requirement of trained professionals with rapid deployment of Hospital Management System, Telemedicine, Picture Archival Communication Systems etc. in healthcare environment. Already, many medical institutions having telemedicine & e health infrastructure are finding it difficult to recruit personnel with necessary blend of technical, medical and managerial skills.
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