MUMBAI: When the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), opens its gates, even if virtually, to the fresh batch of students this August, healthcare informatics will be one of its new offerings. The institute’s foray into healthcare will be a coming together of core sciences maths, medicine and computer science.
The course will be offered as an interdisciplinary dual degree programme as well as a minor programme.
The course will bring together expertise from computer science, bioinformatics, statistics, AIML (artificial intelligence & machine learning) and medical science.
Healthcare informatics market is worth $125bn
Healthcare informatics will address teaching and research on a wide spectrum of topics that include clinical data management, healthcare standards and ethics, modelling and data efficient machine learning, to name a few.
He hails from Kerala and is a native of Thiruvananthapuram.
Ram Mohan obtained his doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur after an MPhil. from National University of Juridical Sciences at Kolkata and an LLM from University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
His writings on topics such as shale-gas extraction, need of public support for scientific research, and dealing with dual disaster of COVID-19 and monsoon in Kerala last year have been published in The Hindu and The Week.
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The public API of Co-Win could be misused by the programmers to automate the process of Covid vaccine registration (India Today photo)
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The Nawab of Pataudi. It was one of India s greatest triumphs.with a most remarkable man leading the way. (Published in The Sportstar on October 19, 1985) PHOTO: THE HINDU ARCHIVES
Cricket and music? Yes, they are perfectly in tune with each other
It was January 1973. India was playing England in a Test series. Ajit Wadekar was leading India, while Tony Lewis was the English captain. The Nawab of Pataudi had been inducted into the team after a fine show in a tour match. The two teams had wound their way to Chennai (then Madras) for the third Test. The series was tied one-all. And the match at Chepauk was crucial.