HCIT plus HC-Mgmt Education Model

With coming of paper-less film-less Digital Hospitals, the Healthcare industry is facing a severe shortage of skills in Healthcare Informatics and on the other side Academia is producing Healthcare Management candidates who need to go to a finishing school to be employable.

Medical education lacks management and IT curriculum. Whereas doctors are increasingly expected to manage digital hospitals, electronic medical records, digital diagnostic images and analyze public health data in electronic form. Isn’t it a paradox?

The shortage is compounded by the HCIT outsourcing from north-America and Europe, where export of services and onsite staff augmentation is growing and needs lot of HCMgmt + HCIT resources.

Govt, Industry and Academia need to come together in building a consortium for enabling a Healthcare-IT R&D university in India. Well developed Healthcare-IT curriculum can be taken from North-American universities and modified for Indian Healthcare. Also IAMI and HIMSS should be involved in accrediting these courses.