Friday, November 2, 2018

2nd Short Course on Public Health Informatics Concludes at PGIMER


By Samachar Vishesh News
Chandigarh 02nd November:- The 2nd short course on Public Health Informatics organized jointly by School of Public Health, PGIMER and Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway, concluded today. Dr. Lakshmi, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health discussed about the project evaluation in health informatics and gave an overview of challenges faced while evaluating these projects.
Dr. Dharamjeet Singh Faujdar and Dilroop gave practical demonstration of district health information system (DHIS) to the participants throughout the course.
Dr. Nikita Sharma, Senior resident discussed the ways to monitor progress towards Universal Health Coverage through health information systems and challenges faced in the process. Field visit to public health dispensary, sector-25 was conducted to show open MRS and DHIS2.
Jatinder Kumar gave a live demonstration of hospital information system (HIS) during visit to data center, PGIMER. About 21 participants from all over India, representing the medical professionals, health systems and information technology professionals participated in the course.

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