Course Curriculum

📚 Course Overview

Duration: 12 weeks (3 months)
Format: Tutorial (PDF), Recorded modules, case studies, and project assignments
Outcome: Foundational knowledge of medical informatics, hands-on exposure to tools, and ability to apply informatics principles in healthcare settings

🗓 Weekly Breakdown

Month 1: Foundations of Medical Informatics

Week 1: Introduction to Medical Informatics
- History, scope, and importance in healthcare
- Key stakeholders (clinicians, IT specialists, patients)
Week 2: Healthcare Systems & Data Standards
- Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
- HL7, FHIR, ICD, SNOMED CT
Week 3: Clinical Data Management
- Data collection, storage, and retrieval
- Structured vs. unstructured data
Week 4: Health Information Systems
- Hospital Information Systems (HIS)
- Laboratory and Radiology Information Systems

Month 2: Tools, Analytics & Applications

Week 5: Decision Support Systems
- Clinical Decision Support (CDS)
- Evidence-based medicine integration
Week 6: Data Analytics in Healthcare
- Basics of biostatistics
- Predictive modeling and machine learning in medicine
Week 7: Telemedicine & Mobile Health (mHealth)
- Remote patient monitoring
- Mobile applications in healthcare delivery
Week 8: Public Health Informatics
- Epidemiological data systems
- Informatics in disease surveillance and prevention

Month 3: Advanced Topics & Project Work

Week 9: Privacy, Security & Ethics
- HIPAA, GDPR, and Indian data protection laws
- Ethical challenges in medical informatics
Week 10: Emerging Technologies
- AI in diagnostics
- Blockchain in health records
- Wearables and IoT in healthcare
Week 11: Research Methods in Medical Informatics
- Study design, data sources, and evaluation metrics
Week 12: Capstone Project & Presentations
- Students work on a real-world problem (e.g., designing a small EHR prototype, analyzing health datasets, or proposing a telehealth workflow)
- Final presentations and peer review

🎯 Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, learners will: