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We are pleased to state that Prof. Supten Sarbadhikari has been nominated as a member of the EMR Standards Committee drafted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India.
(Prof. Supten Sarbadhikari)
Prof. Supten Sarbadhikari did PhD in Biomedical Engineering from our institute in 1995. He was among the first batch from the department and the only doctor to join the course at that time. Dr. Supten Sarbadhikari is known as leading authority about bioinformatics in India.
Currently he is Founding Director of CAL2CAL Institute, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The institute provides electronics health information training via internet.
He is nominated by Ministry on the EMR (Electronic Medical Records) Standardization Committee.
For more details, please click on the PDF file here.
(He is shown at # 7 under member list)
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Prof. Supten Sarbadhikari, MBBS, PhD
Founding Director, CAL2CAL Institute
Healthcare Informatics Director, CAL2CAL Group
Email: supten@cal2cal.com
Homepage: (1) http://www.cal2cal.com/contactus.aspx?Contacts=people
(2) http://cal2calinstitute.org/
(3) http://sites.google.com/site/supten/
Editor-in-Chief, Indian Journal of Medical Informatics: http://ijmi.org/index.php/ijmi/about/editorialTeam
Editorial Board Member (MENPA): http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/714078/editorialboard#editorialboard
Chair, Education Committee, and, Chair-Elect, HL7 India: http://www.hl7india.org/ourteam.html
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Education of Prof. Supten Sarbadhikari
* M.Sc., Sikkim-Manipal University of Health, Medical and Technological Sciences, Disaster Mitigation, 2002
* PhD, Banaras Hindu University, Biomedical Engineering, 1995
* MBBS, University of Calcutta, Medicine and Surgery, 1989
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About Dr. Supten Sarbadhikari
His interview was published in Chronicle in August 2008 issue:
http://www.itbhu.org/chronicle/archives/2006/08/index.html#000874
His Home Page is: http://sites.google.com/site/supten/
He was the Founding Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics at PSG IMS&R, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
He has been appointed as an office bearer of HL7 organization:
http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2009/05/index-alumni-world.php#004333
You can find more detail about him in the above link.
He can be reached at: Supten@gmail.com
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CAL2CAL
http://www.cal2cal.com/Home.aspx
Incorporated in 1996, in California, USA, CAL2CAL Group companies have subsequently grown to have global operations. CAL2CAL is an Independent Software Vendor and its core focus is innovative application of Information and Communication Technology and Mobile technology developing customised products and solutions for niche, but growing market across the globe: e-health, e-government, e-surveys, public health, social protection & welfare services, education & training, and consultancy.
CAL2CAL expertise lies in legacy systems integration architecture and real-time information exchange via mobile technology. These standards based systems have the technical competence of incremental adaptation to future regulation alterations or escalation of the procedures to suit the changing requirements.
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The announcement from the Ministry:
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Department of Health and Family Welfare
Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi-110108
No. Z.28015/79/2010-Hosp. Dated: 13 /09/2010
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: - Standardization of Electronic Medical Records.
The undersigned is directed to refer to the meeting of Experts held on 10th August, 2010 under the chairpersonship of Secretary (Health & Family Welfare) wherein it has been decided to constitute a Committee of Experts for development of an Information Technology (IT) based electronic medical records maintenance system for hospitals.
There is a need to initiate a project for developing an IT enabled uniform system of electronic medical records maintenance for hospitals that will maintain the records of treatment, identification, healthcare providers, cost of treatment, standard of healthcare availability and quality of treatment etc. Availability of electronic medical records will help data monitoring of available information to enforce the Standard Treatment Protocols which are separately being developed under the guidance of a Core Committee of Experts constituted under the chairpersonship of Secretary (Health & Family Welfare).
Accordingly, the Govt. has decided to constitute a Committee of Experts for development of standards on electronic medical records (EMR) maintenance system for hospitals. The composition of the Committee and its Terms of Reference are as under:
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7. Dr. Supten Sarbadhikari
Director, CAL2CAL Group
supten@cal2cal.com
Member
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The Terms of Reference of the Committee:
1. The Objective
The objective of the said Committee will be to recommend a set of EMR Standards for India to be followed by both public and private healthcare providers, implementation of the standards, procedure for dissemination and the procedure for continuous updation of the standards.
2. Scope
The standards to be developed will include the following:
Diagnosis coding
Procedure coding
Laboratory coding
Clinical Standards
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) including
o Data flow across hospitals
o Integration with Telemedicine program
o Integration with National Administrative Labs for data analysis
o Middleware for interpreting with proprietary system
Standards for Continuity of Care Records which include administrative, demographic and clinical information
Common drug codes
Guidelines to meet standards set by organizations such as CCHIT, NABH, JCAHO, Meaningful Use etc.
Standards for interoperability both in terms of hardware and software
Security protocols for information security
Data privacy
Legal compliance
Standard formats/templates for clinical information capture including preparation of a data dictionary
As a part of its activities towards the above, the committee will, among other things;
Study the existing standards prevalent in the developed countries
Adopt, as far as possible, standards such as ICD 10, HL7, DICOM, LOINC and CPT, wholly or partly as applicable in the Indian environment.
Study the work done by the Task Force on Tele Medicine commissioned by the Ministry of Health and Family welfare in the year 2007.
Study and recommend coding procedures for coding of hospitals, healthcare providers, healthcare professionals, drug manufacturers, healthcare providers and insurance companies.
Develop Standards for reporting
Study guiding standards such as WHO standards for interoperability
http://sdmx-hd.org, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology standards:
http://egovstandards.gov.in/,Ministry of Communications and IT security standards http://egovstandards.gov.in/INFO_SEC_STD_APP, and recommend appropriately.
3. Deliverables
Draft set of Indian EMR Standards and guidelines.
Organize the workshop with a broad set of stakeholders to deliberate on draft EMR standards and guidelines
Create subcommittees for adaption/implementation of standards
4. Schedule
All activities are to be completed in a timeframe of six months from the date of issue of the OM. The Committee may submit an interim report within 2-3 months.
5. Resources and Budget allocation
MoHFW will provide the requisite resources and budget to the Committee for completing the activities.
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