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Overview
Digital transformation in health care is happening at an amazingly rapid pace and as such the current global health care crisis is in constant need for technology to provide quick and effective solutions. This program introduces students to the emerging and multidisciplinary field of digital health and telemedicine providing an elaborate exposure on its role and applications in diverse areas of health care system. The students are expected to leverage enormous benefit from this program as this is an emerging domain where the demand for professionals conversant in digital health will be on the rise. The course is aimed at familiarizing the students with the cutting-edge of health technology including astounding developments in telehealth, digital health, and virtual health.
Programme Education Objective
The key topics included are learning health systems, electronic health records, digital health technologies covering mobile applications, wearables, health information systems, telehealth, telemedicine, machine learning and deep learning, artificial intelligence, applictions of virtual and augmented reality, analytics in health care.
Career Opportunities
There are numerous career opportunities in the domain of digital health in the back-office, operations, marketing, content development and multiple other areas. For example:
- Entry level Digital Health Product Executives
- Associate Medical Writer – Digital Health
- Data analyst
- Operations executives in integrated Health Information System
- Digital health educators
- MIS expert
Programme Structure
Core Curriculum
Digital Health and telemedicine - stages of development
Growth and evolution of Digital Health
Basic concepts of health care infrastructure, Growth of evolution of digital health, importance and benefits of digital health
Telemedicine
Teleconsultation, Teleradiology, remote care, live and store and forward video conferencing, appointment booking, self-symptom checkers, patient outcome reporting, digital and remote clinics
Electronic health record system
Capturing of health data and features of health information system, Paperless Hospital, Cloud-based HMIS, Medical Transcription
e-Commerce
e-gateway for buying Health Insurance and serving patients, e-pharmacy, Social media Marketing for Healthcare services
Technology in Digital Health
Information Technology
Informaton concepts and quality of information
DBMS, ERP system on health care
Overview of DBMS and SQL, Concepts of ERP system. Applications of SCM and CRM in health care system, e-tender and e-logistics
Applications of AI in health care
Discussions on artificial intelligence, expert system, neural network and virtual and augemented reality, robotics
Health care data analytics
Operational, clinical and financial data analysis, for example, a) Operations: patients wait time, patient satisfaction, cross department utilization, b) Clinical: hospital incidence, disease dashboard, recovery and death statistics, c) Financial: payer performance, physician performance, referral channels, expenses incurred. Applications of data warehousing, OLAP, data mining and big data analytics. Overview of Tableau
e-health
Demonstration of top digital health products, mobile applications, Role of Big data, Blockchain, 4-d Printing in healthcare, Digital platforms for teaching-learning for Medicos and other Health professionals – Computational Simulations, Modeling and Machine Learning
Security
Confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, data encryption and decryption, Hospital Building Automation and Management, Digital Security systems used to protect patient & Hospital Infrastructure
Digital health market and National and International initiatives in digital health
Global Digital Health Market
A conceptual study of global digital health market and key players and category of offerings, overview of startups in the digital health sector
Government initiatives in digital health
Discussions on different digital health portals of government, national digital health mission, understanding of applications namely, CoWin, eRaktKosh, eSanjeevani, eHealth etc.
WHO Guidelines on digital health
WHO guidelines on digital health, ITU WHO focus group AI for health
Digital health regulatory compliance
Electronic health records standards, Digital information security, Patent, copyright and trademarks
Challenges
Digital divide, digital literacy, connectivity
Case studies
Discussions on different applications of digital health
Programme Type - UG
Duration - 3 years
Fee Details
- Kolkata
Kolkata Admission Fee of Rs. 45000/- and Alumni Fee of Rs 5000/- to be paid during Admission
Payment Date |
One Time Payment | Yearly Payment Payment Deadline | Half-Yearly Payment |
| Within 15 days of Admission | INR 2,75,000 | INR 1,50,000 | INR 81,000 |
| By 30th Nov, 2022 | INR 81,000 | ||
| By 31st May, 2023 | INR 90,000 | INR 49,000 | |
| By 30th Nov, 2023 | INR 49,000 | ||
| By 31st May, 2024 | INR 60,000 | INR 32,500 | |
| By 30th Nov, 2024 | INR 32,500 | ||
| Tuition Fee Total | INR 2,75,000 | INR 3,00,000 | INR 3,25,000 |
| Total Fees: | INR 3,25,000 | INR 3,50,000 | INR 3,75,000 |
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