School of Telemedicine & Biomedical Informatics

(National Resource Center for Telemedicine)

Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, India is the first academic medical institution in the country to take the initiative to establish a School of Telemedicine and Biomedical Informatics in it’s campus in the year 2006. While, the school was getting built with the support of Uttar Pradesh state government, a project was submitted to the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communication and IT, Government of India to support creation of laboratory infrastructure to carry out inter-disciplinary research in the field of Health IT This project is aiming at creation of a resource center at national level to attract researchers from various fields of science related to health information science and technology to develop research collaboration.

The structured teaching and training program is getting developed in Health ICT are as follows –

• Diploma course (one year duration after +2 level) in specific application areas such as Telemedicine, Medical Image Management, Hospital Information System including PACS, Multimedia medical content development etc.

• Degree & Master Course in Biomedical Informatics (3 years course after +2 level for degree and 2 years course for Masters after graduation in Science stream.)

• Master Course in Telemedicine & Biomedical Informatics (2 years course after graduation in Science stream).

• Ph.D. & Post-doctoral Courses on specialized areas.

The school had already conducted two short term training program on telemedicine and e-Health technology and its application