Medical informatics still at a nascent stage in India: Expert

LUDHIANA:Around 60 participants from Punjab and Haryana participated in the 15day faculty development programme on biomedical instrumentation biomedical informatics and health informatics drew to a close at the Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College today

Updated At : 07:25 AM Nov 04, 2017 IST

Director, NIT Jalandhar, Dr Lalit Awasthi, speaks during the programme organised at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College. Photo: Inderjeet Verma

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, November 3

Around 60 participants from Punjab and Haryana participated in the 15-day faculty development programme on bio-medical instrumentation, bio-medical informatics and health informatics drew to a close at the Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College today. The programme was sponsored by the All-India Council of Technical Education (AICTE).

Expert sessions were held to discuss the coming together of engineering and medical field to create new avenues for advancements of imaging, analysis and thus expedite and improve prognosis and treatment.

Several experts including Dr Amit Mehandiratta from IIT Delhi, Dr Sukhwinder Singh from University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chandigarh, and Dr Vipul Sharma from PTU Bathinda shared their views in the fields of bio-medical instrumentation, bio-medical informatics and health informatics.

Lalit Awasthi, Director NIT Jalandhar, was the chief guest.

Experts said it was extremely important to amalgamate engineering faculty with medical for the advancement in finding solutions and treatment for complex medical problems.

As part of the ongoing projects, engineers trained in the faculty development programme would collect data and analyse CT Scan, MRI and medical imaging among other things. The experts said with advanced data imaging, it would be possible to create biomedical implant, deformity, construct a limb, that can be created according to specific sizes.

Prof Arvind Dhingra from the college said advanced medical imaging would help analyse images so that medical experts can take pre-emptive steps to prevent the spread of diseases. He said medical informatics was being done in developed countries, but was at a nascent stage in India.