Chair

Dr. Suptendra Nath Sarbadhikari, MBBS, PhD Personal Web page: http://sites.google.com/site/supten/

Vision Plan

To integrate informatics into healthcare delivery, education and research, for achieving “HEALTH FOR ALL”.

Mission Statement

To setup facilities for assessing the quality of healthcare content on the World Wide Web and for building evidence-based clinical decision support systems. Further, to form effective collaboration for building and using clinical data warehouse for education and research, and, to critically evaluate new technologies for making telehealth applications a routine reality in the global village.

Department Profile

Student Programs

 Biomedical Informatics for UG and PG students

 Online reinforcement of classroom teaching

Facilities / Services

 Polycom VSX7ke videoconferencing unit

 Online Tutorials through Moodle

Events

 Workshop held on 21.6.08 on “Orienting the Faculty towards building Online Interactive Tutorials (OITs)”.

Awards/Honors to Faculty

1. Selected for the prestigious Health Professions Educators for South-Asia Regional Institute Fellowship at PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Coimbatore (PSG FAIMER South Asian Regional Institute) http://psg.faimer.googlepages.com/selectedfellows2007.

Recent Publications

1. Sarbadhikari SN, Applying healthcare informatics to improve student learning, Medical Education, 2008; 42: 1117–1118 (Really Good Stuff).

2. Sarbadhikari SN, How to design an effective e-learning course for medical education, Indian Journal of Medical Informatics, 2008; 3(1):3: http://ijmi.org/index.php/ijmi/article/view/y08i1a3/15

Courses

 Online: http://psgimsr.in/online-hi

 Online: PSG IMS & R: e-Learning Portal

Future Expansion Plans

 Electronic Medical Records

Other Activities

International Activities of Faculty:

1. Editor-in-Chief, Indian Journal of Medical Informatics: http://ijmi.org/index.php/ijmi

2. Member of the International Editorial Board of MENPA (Elsevier): http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/714078/editorialboard

3. Chair of the Editorial Council of Citizendium [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Category:CZ_Editorial_Council_Members]

4. Tutoring global students on HL7: http://campus.hl7.org.ar/

5. Reviewer for the Journal of Medical Systems, Springer

6. Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

7. Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

8. Reviewer for the Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Some National Workshop activities by the Faculty

1. Delivered an Invited Talk titled: “Web Resources for Biomedical Signal and Image Analyses”, at the “Seminar-cum-Workshop on Acquisition and Analysis of Biomedical Signals”, organized by the Department of Physiology, SRM University, Chennai, in collaboration with the Association of the Physiologists of Tamil Nadu, Chennai, February 29, 2008.

2. Delivered an Invited Talk titled: “How to incorporate Medical Informatics in the 9-Semester MBBS curriculum”, at the “National Symposium on Telemedicine and Informatics in Medical Education: TIME-2008”, organized by the Medical Council of India and the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi on March 08 – 09, 2008.

3. John "Jack" A. Hopps memorial lecture on "Biomedical Signal and Image Analysis" at the National Workshop on Bio-signal Data Acquisition and Processing at PSNA College of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul on 28.3.08.

4. Invited Talk on “How to reinforce contact classes with online mentoring” on Oct 03, 2008 at National Workshop on “Strengthening Medical Education through IT” KLE University, Belgaum to commemorate Platinum Jubilee Celebrations of MCI.

5. Invited Talk on “How to find and cite relevant references” from Oct 13-14, 2008 at Workshop on Research Methodology, PSGIMS&R.

6. Conducting Session on “Effective use of Technology in Instruction” at National Workshop on Teaching Learning Methods in Health Professions Education from Nov 10-12, 2008 at AIIMS, New Delhi.

7. Invited Talk on “The role of online communication for raising awareness of medical informatics” from Nov 20-22, 2008 at 11th National Workshop on Medical Informatics and Biomedical Communication, MGIMS, Sewagram.

8. Keynote Address on “How to validate eLearning Course content for medical education” at Meditel-2008, SRMC, Chennai December 19-20, 2008.