| Health Informatics Infrastructure(HII) in India | |
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| Advanced Diploma in Health System Informatics
(ADHSI) | |
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| General purpose information technology solutions are usually inadequate for
specialised needs of the health sector. That is why a host of solutions, standards and services are emerging to meet needs of the health sector. Application of information technology to the domain of health care delivery is referred to as Health Informatics. Health informatics is fast growing to be a well defined field of study, applied research, information technology business activity. | |
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| Building and operation of an Intranet, in the present environment, requires multiple skills like network engineering, network operating system skills, personal computer platform maintenance skills, etc. For health intranets, some domain knowledge about the special needs of doctors, hospitals and health care institutions, familiarisation with health informatic solutions etc. is required. Hospitals wanting to introduce computers for the first time would usually want some one readily available to fix emergent problems. Small hospitals can not afford to recruit a multi member team just to maintain the information system infrastructure. Hence there is a definite a need for a skill set that includes networking essentials, network operating system administration, personal computer platform maintenance and familiarity with health informatic solutions. Persons with such skills will form an important component of the health information infrastructure of a country. | |
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| Although there are a plethora of institutions providing training in computers, there is hardly any program designed to meet the specific needs of the health sector. | |
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| Institute of HealthSystems has been making efforts to build health informatics infrastructure in India. IHS offers a training programme to build manpower to meet system administration needs of hospitals and health care organisations. This
Advanced Diploma offered by IHS is consisting of nine months full time training followed by 9 - 12 months internship. The course teaches skills in administering and implementing windows NT,
Linux Administration, Introduction to Health Systems, Introduction to Telemedicine etc. ADHSI is recognised by the State Board of Technical Education and
Training of Andhra Pradesh. ADHSI students are more versatile as they are trained for system administration, PC hardware trouble shooting and building up small local area networks. | |
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| Course content : | |
| Phase -I | |
| - Site Preparation, Basic Skills.
- Personal Computer Hardware.
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Client Operating System and Office Suite Support.
1. Installation and Supporting Linux Workstation, Windows 95/98.
2. Desktop Navigation using Linux X-windows and Windows
95/98.
3. Microsoft Office, Lotus Smart suite, Star Office on Linux
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Networking Essentials: | |
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Introduction
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Network Architecture
3.
Network Standards - IEEE 802.x Project Model
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Network Security etc. | |
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| 5. Windows 2000: | |
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Windows 2000 Overview
2.
Windows 2000 Architecture
3.
Installing Windows 2000
4. Introduction to
User Groups
5.
Windows 2000 Networking Infrastructure
6.
Implementing Windows 2000 Based Servers
7. Introduction to auditing
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Configuring Network Connectivity between OSs
9.
Creating and managing Trees and Forests
10.
Managing Active Directory Replication
11.
Maintaining the Active Directory Database
12.
Managing Data by using NTFS
13.
Implementing Name Resolution Using DNS etc. | |
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| 6.
Linux Administration
1. Introduction to Ret Hat Linux (latest version)
2. Configuring LILO
and Other Boot Managers
3. Introduction to Linux Commands
4. Linux File Systems, Disks and Other Devices 5. Creating and Managing Users and Groups
6. Printing with Linux
7. Installing and Configuring TCP/IP, DNS & DHCP, SMTP
and Sendmail
8. File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
9. Installing and Configuring Samba Server
10.Configuring and Building Kernals
11.Backup and Restore
12.System Security etc.
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7. Introduction
to Health Systems. | |
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8. Introduction to Telemedicine. | |
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9. Office Automation and Equipment. | |
| Personality Development: | |
| Once in a month you are required to give a presentation from the computer magazine hosen by you during the course. Each student should select a topic of his/her choice for presentation. You should select a topic reported in the computer magazine of your choice you will make a presentation for seven minutes followed by three minutes of discussion. Practice your presentation before hand. | |
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| Spoken English Course: | |
| Presentation and language skills are important for people who want to build a career in the knowledge and information sector. It is found that many students, have difficulty in expressing themselves and are likely to benefit by cultivating presentation and expression skills. To meet this felt need, and facilitate improvement of vocabulary and presentation skills, the Institute arranges for conduct of Spoken English classes. Course fee is extra. The Institute accordingly subsidises part of the course fee. | |
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| Phase-2 | |
| - On the job work.
- Elected industry journal study and review.
- Periodic evaluation of on the job learning
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| Expected outcome | |
| The students will be equipped to independently build local area networks and act as system administrators, maintain personal computers and fix common problems experienced by PC users. They will be trained to exchange information over a wide area network like the IHSNET | |
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| To know more about the course and the opportunities write to: ihs@ihsnet.org.in | |
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