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.