IIIT-A to host summer e-health school from July 8

ALLAHABAD: Several IT experts and medical practitioners will be sharing their experiences relating to e-health care during the summer school to be organised by Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, at its Jhalwa unit from July 8.
IIIT-A director MD Tiwari said that Information Communication Technology (ICT) applications are consistently growing for Healthcare.ICT has found utility in providing quick access to vast amount of medical information, automating the process of clinical diagnosis and also clinical investigations. The aim of this summer school is to apprise the faculty and the medical doctors of these technological advancements in the field of healthcare to make better use of ICT in their area of work. Also the computer engineering faculty might get exposure to know the application of ICT in the healthcare field so that they can foster the enhanced role of technology in this field of healthcare.
Some of its aspects include architecture for electronic medical records and other health, information systems used for billing, scheduling and research, decision support system in healthcare, standards and integration profiles, facilitating the exchange of information between healthcare information systems, controlled medical vocabularies (CMVs) such as the systematised nomenclature of medicine, clinical terms etc, said Tiwari.
Convenor RC Tripathi said that e-Healthcare systems dealt with the resources, devices and methods required to optimise the acquisition, storage, retrieval and use of information in health and biomedicine. The tools included not only computers and networks but also clinical guidelines, formal medical terminologies and computer-based equipment. About 40 participants belonging to MBBS teaching faculty, engineering degree level faculty of IT, CSE, ECE, private medical practitioners with MBBS degree, government, public sector unit and private sector managers engaged in health services were registered till the last date of registration for the course.