Medical Informatics: An Exploration

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These days, medical science, coupled with the latest technology, can throw up infinite conveniences for both the doctor examining a patient and the latter’s diagnosis and treatment. So, if a patient’s data is evaluated well, it can lead to a better understanding of his disease and clinical management. A thorough understanding of Epidemiology Intelligence will also improve quick detection of pandemics and save many lives. In addition, medical informatics can give us valuable information in healthcare. Today, this is a niche area in the healthcare domain. This book begs the question whether computers can, in fact, diagnose disease and sickness as efficiently and correctly as experienced clinicians using the same patient data and knowledge.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kailash Chandra Mishra

Dr. K C Mishra is currently Director of National Insurance Academy, Pune, India. He has harnessed his experience in national and international institutions like ASCI, SPJIMR, Bank of India, World Bank, UTI as Board of Director and as Audit Committee Chairman, SEBI and as Advisory Committee Member, IRDA. He was a member of national level committees like K P Narasimham Committee, Envisioning Committee of which he was the Chairman. He has built many institutions at National and International levels like Maharashtra State Cooperative Deposit Guarantee Corporation, NIASOM, NIASEE and Insurance Institutes in Dubai and West African Countries. He is an active educational advisor of FAIR with Head Quarters at Egypt. He is a D.Litt. in management with post doctoral research and has visiting professor experience in reputed schools like Wharton’s Aresty Business School, Columbia University Business School, Connecticut University, World Bank Institute, SUNY at Buffalo etc. He has scores of academic awards and gold medals to his credit. He is the chairman or member of professional bodies and is an active doctoral research guide. In the last ten years, he has completed consulting projects for many national and international corporates like Nigeria Re, GIC, LIC, National Insurance Co, LPA, ECGC, United Western Bank, United Insurance, World Bank, ADB, North Western Hill Council, Prasar Bharati, ONGC, NTPC, Power Transmission Industry, Godrej, GTZ, SEWA and Tyndall Group, USA. Government of India, Ministry of Labour, Health, Electronics, Forest and Environment and Planning Commission frequently nominate him as expert advisor in specific areas. He has published seven textbooks and more than three hundred papers, case studies and research monograms in the last ten years.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Simita Mishra

Dr. Simita Mishra has 6 years of experience, which centers on Healthcare Management, Healthcare Consulting, Healthcare Marketing and Business Development. She has worked in a variety of project roles including Project Manager, Account Executive, Facilitator and Market Research Specialist. By March 2006, she has more than 4500 hours of Management and Team Lead experience. Her responsibilities include managing, planning, designing, and implementing various strategic solutions; she is also responsible for identifying improvement opportunities at clients in order to increase additional sales. She has core competence in transforming client’s business process requirements into an easily interpretable result. She has a Bachelors degree in Business & Commerce from D.G. Ruparel College, Mumbai, India.  She was awarded a certificate in Healthcare Finance and Management by Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; certification of Managed Care Professional from Life Office Management Association (LOMA), Academy of Healthcare Management, Atlanta, GA; a certificate in Management and Business Administration by American Management and Business Administration Institute, Cambridge, MA and also was awarded PhD in Medical Informatics from University of Pune as a research affiliate of National Insurance Academy. Her articles have been published in various publications viz.,  ASCI Journal of Management, Asia Insurance Post,  The Management Accountant and ICFAI University Publications. She has worked as an executive at Columbia-Arora Joint Venture, Evincere Solutions Inc., FCG, Kelly Healthcare, all in USA and Sedgwick Parekh Healthcare Management Pvt. Ltd. and P.D. Hinduja National Hospital and MRC in India.

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Title
Medical Informatics: An Exploration
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8131403785
Length
332p.