The Hindu Business Line : New course on healthcare informatics in Pune

Looking at the need of skilled professionals in the health care industry, the Pune-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), under the aegis of its Advanced Computing Training School (ACTS), has launched a new course on healthcare informatics.

It is also shipping the PARAM supercomputing cluster to Tanzania, Mr Rajan T. Joseph, Director General, CDAC, said here on Thursday.

He said the deployment is part of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the Indian Government and the Government of United Republic of Tanzania.

Valued at Rs 3.74 crore, the system would be deployed at Dar -es-Salaam, Institute of Technology, Tanzania.

The PARAM supercomputing cluster consists of PARAMNet III Interconnect, software stacks, system software and tools along with storage. Additionally, system administration and application porting and parallelisation, training on HPC tools would be provided, he said.

Mr Rajan said the project would be for three years for scientific and research applications programmes apart from being a national data centre.

He said it is also conducting discussions with countries such as Ghana, Myanmar, Seychelles, Uzebikhstan, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam.

On the health care informatics course, Mr Rajan said it is a 24-week full time programme and is a post graduate diploma. He said at the end of the course, student would be able to understand the concepts ofhealthcare informatics, learn the technologies and skills required for and issues involved in aggregation and analysis of information regarding various factor in healthcare.

He said Pune would be the pilot project for this and would have a batch of 60 students to begin with. This would be rolled out to its 53 centres on a phase-wise manner, he added.

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