Health informatics also known as healthcare informatics, medical informatics, nursing informatics, clinical informatics, or biomedical informatics is an intersection of information systems, computer science, and health care. It deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information systems in health and biomedicine.
Health informatics tools include not only computers but also clinical guidelines, formal medical terminologies, internal processes and information and communication systems. It is applied to the areas of nursing, clinical care/development, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, occupational therapy, and (bio) medical research.
Looking at the need for skilled professionals in the current healthcare industry, HRD Inc. has launched a new course on Health Informatics. This course targets individuals and professionals who wish to build their career in the Health Informatics domain as a business analyst, business architect, data architect and business process engineer.
This program is designed and targeted to groom students and professionals in the area of Health Informatics. In the current economic scenario it is imperative for today's IT professionals to augment their skill sets beyond technology and venture into domain specialization to stay relevant in this dynamic environment. Specialists who can bring three specialties such as business domain knowledge, business analyst process knowledge and technology to the table will have a clear advantage in the market. Despite the downturn, the healthcare industry is witnessing a demand for health informatics professionals as technology is beginning to play an important role in healthcare delivery.
introducing, The objective of this course is to enable the student to understand the art and applicable science of managing, and organizing information and technologies related to human healthcare, and making it useful for problem solving using latest state-of-art technologies. At the end of the course the student will be able to understand the concepts in Healthcare Informatics, learn the technologies and skills required for and issues involved in aggregation and analysis of information regarding various factors interacting in healthcare. They will be able to apply appropriate techniques to solve problems in various application areas in health informatics.
"Build your new future with a strong knowledgebase…"
The first batch of this course will commence from December 17, 2011
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