HCitC has, for the first time in India come out with a 'Fast Track' Intensive Certificate course in Healthcare Informatics that takes in a lay person and converts him into a Healthcare Informatician with the option to earn an Internationally valid US Certification in a Healthcare Interoperability language, in not months or years but just days! The same course that is leisurely taught a few hours a day at a time over one year or more has been compressed into a intensive, fast track course that bring you up to par in JUST 13 weeks! This course is designed for individuals with little or no background in healthcare Informatics  who are determined to break into, and grow in this highly challenging yet lucrative field. The course is an intensive, 8 hours per day, instructor led course with a minimum class size to ensure one-to-one trainer-student interaction. The three groups of people who will gain most from this course are:

1.      Doctors (allopathic, homeopathic, ayurvedic, etc), dental surgeons, nurses
and other paramedical professionals like lab assistants, physiotherapists and dieticians.

2.      Graduates  and Post graduates with an MBA, BBA,  BSc, MSc, BA or  MA

3.      Qualified IT professional who want to move into Healthcare Informatics

Introduction:

A well known IOM (US) report states that as much as 98,000 patients die in US hospitals due to medical errors! We know today that many of these errors can be avoided, and quality of healthcare improved by the use of Healthcare Informatics.

So what is Healthcare Informatics?

Healthcare informatics is a challenging sunrise domain that combines skill-sets from healthcare, informatics, communications and business administration.  The goal of Healthcare is to provide quality based patient care which is based on efficient access to, and use of clinical information to make appropriate and efficient clinical decisions. Healthcare Informatics strategizes, implements, optimizes and maintains IT applications, processes  and systems that support the above mentioned goal. This goal presupposes availability of adequate resources trained in Healthcare Informatics.

Regrettably there is an acute shortage of such trained  resources, in India, the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Europe and China, in fact literally globally.  This shortage is especially acute in the US where the President has mandated a massive thrust in Healthcare Informatics and has provided adequate funding for the same. Unfortunately, there are limited schools  that train Healthcare Informaticians and most of them are in the US, UK and other western countries. Most programs are of between  1 to 2 years and require either online or full time on-site study.

Healthcare careers are well paying. However the path to a well-paying job is long and hard. You can now take the short cut to quickly acquiring skill-sets in the field of health informatics. This fast track 13 week course helps you out-shine other candidates in any interview for high paying Healthcare Informatics jobs in India, the US, UK, Australia, Canada and other European countries. The demand for these resources is there at every hospital, health insurer, Healthcare IT corporate, and pharmaceutical company.  Professionals like doctors, nurses, para-medicals, coders, IT programmers, project managers, analysts marketing experts who obtain proper education and training are more likely to realize the benefits of multiple employment opportunities. See the news article below to understand the demand, just in the US. India on the other hand is in the growing phase and has a potential demand at every hospital and HC IT company. That itself will translate to more than six to twelve times the number required in the US.

Course Objectives

The student  is provided  a proper  foundation in all current and upcoming topics of Healthcare Informatics. A generous amount of time is spent on hands-on workshops* and real-world concepts that provide the student  with the confidence to work on live projects. The total focus of this course is on Job oriented implementation skillsets rather than  outdated theoretical  knowledge.  Our course makes the student a confident link between the clinical professionals and IT personnel. (It is assumed that the student understands English, has a basic understanding of computers and can use basic apps like a web browser and an email client)

Admission Requirements:

• A keen need to learn and succeed

• A Bachelor's Degree from a recognized university

• Fluency in English

Course Curriculum (Brief)

Overview of Medical Informatics

Standards and Standardizing Organizations

Overview of various Healthcare IT Standards

HL7 V2x and V3

Principles of Terminology

LOINC

SNOMED-CT

ICD, CPT

 Evidence-Based Medicine

Workflow in hospital environment

Electronic Health Records

Practice Management Systems

 E-prescribing (CPOE)

CDSS

HIMS/HIS

Personal Health Records

Medical Imaging

DICOM, PACS, RIS

Unified Medical Language

Healthcare and health Insurance in the USA

Interoperability programs in the USA

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)

Health Information Exchange

HIPAA

mHealth

 Patient Safety and Health Information Technology

Telehealth and Telemedicine

 Health Information Ethics

Bioinformatics

 Public Health Informatics

Disease Management and Registries

Consumer Health Informatics

      Online Medical Resources

Course Duration

13 Weeks (3 months), with face to face instructor led classes during the week-ends at Pune, India.

Course Fee

Call us for details . For Admission, the course fee to be paid in the form of a Draft in favour of "HCit Consultant" payable at Pune. Electronic payment can also be made. 

Course Delivery

(a) The course delivery has been planned meticulously to ensure minimum disruption/travel for working/outstation candidates while ensuring easy learning.  Full time classes and hands-on workshop would be held at Pune for the first one month and the final one week. The rest of the time there would be instructor led, face to face, high impact training for  8 hours a day at a star hotel at Pune. We would including  breakfast and lunch. These would be held for 3 days during alternate  weekends and the following Monday,  thereby allowing candidates to get back to work/their city if they so desire.
(b) Home-based revisions and add-on studies with instructor support through emails, during the week-days.
(c) Hands-on training with software tools and real life scenarios (candidates must  bring their own laptop with Windows loaded)

Certification

Each student is required to complete all internal assessments. A certification exam will be conducted after completion of the IT portion of the course. Certification examinations will also be conducted after completion of each part of the Healthcare Informatics syllabus. Successful candidates will be awarded a Certificate by  HCit Consultant.

*Optional International certification: Towards the end of the course, candidates can opt for training for certification in HL7. Please contact us for details and rates. Post this training they can appear for the HL7 International Certification online. Successful candidates will be  Certified by Health Level 7 International, USA. This certificate is recognized Internationally  and  certifies the student's capability in HL7.  Armed with this certificate an HL7 expert can confidently apply for HL7 Domain Expert/Analyst positions   globally. 

 

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