Progress in information processing and information technology is changing our societies. There is a significant social and economic relevance of information technology for medicine and healthcare especially improving quality of health care. It is expected that these developments will continue in the next decade, probably at least at the same pace as can be observed today. We need to have skilled manpower to meet the demand of the present and future. For a systemic processing of information in medicine and in health care, and for an appropriate and responsible application of information technology, health and IT professionals are needed who are well educated in health informatics. Raising the scope and providing high quality of education in the field of health and medical informatics, and having well educated health professionals world wide would considerably help to raise the quality and efficiency of healthcare. It is also pertinent to note that no such facility has been established yet in India. Many countries in the world look for skilled IT professionals from India and such infrastructure once established can meet their requirement and in turn offer new avenues for employment. Regional, national and international collaboration with medical, IT and technical institutions will be established in teaching and research and application fields which will broaden the scope of the proposed resource center and result in solving several application issues and development of world class products. |
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Construction of the proposed national resource center on Telemedicine & Medical Informatics has already been started with the support from Uttar Pradesh Government. Rs. Five Crore has already been released from the State Govt. towards development of physical infrastructure. The work which was started in October 2003 is going to be completed within eighteen months. The data and video networking of this set up is unique in the sense – it is going to be first of its kind in the country and the network is going to be integrated with the Hospital Information System set up by C-DAC allowing data and video traffic from any part of HIS network point. So such intra-hospital Telemedicine network will facilitate tele-consultation and tele-education. from any point in the hospital. The six facilities which will be equipped and start functioning with the support from DIT grant are- Telemedicine, Hospital Management System, Multimedia Medical Content Development & Distance Medical Education, Clinical Decision Support System/Artificial Intelligence, Medical Image Management & Bio-informatics. Further upgradation in the field of. Robotic Surgery and Virtual Reality application in Medicine is envisaged.
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