Over the last one decade, there has been a growing enthusiasm for the potential usefulness of data analytics and informatics in transforming healthcare, especially in India. The National Health Policy (2017) envisaged the creation of a digital health technology ecosystem to leverage the potential of data in transforming personal care, clinical care, and public health delivery. National Health Stack (NHS), proposed by NITI Aayog, came up with the National Digital Health Blueprint (NDHB) after surveying the global best practices in adoption of digital technologies holistically. The NDHB is not merely an ‘architectural document’. It has specific details of the building blocks required to fulfill the vision of NHP (2017) as also the institutional mechanism and an Action Plan for realizing digital health in a comprehensive and holistic manner. Recently, the Government of India also launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) for the entire country. The ABDM aims to create an online platform through the provision of a wide range of data, information and infrastructure services while leveraging open, interoperable, standards-based digital systems. However, the bigger challenge facing the health care industry is how to implement the mission guidelines, logically educe actionable insights with creation of interventions at which health information technology interacts and affects the organization. The full value of big data and information systems in healthcare could only be unlocked by enhancing the analytical capabilities of the stakeholders. Thus, healthcare organizations need specialists who know how to design and build platforms. This customized program on health informatics would enable the health professionals to position themselves as leaders in the digital reorganization of India’s healthcare system.

a) Eligibility criteria

The target audience of the program includes –

· Officers of National Health Mission (NHM) in States/UTs dealing with data

· Officers of National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) in States/UTs

· Senior Officers of State Health Authority dealing with Pradhan Mantri JanArogya Yojana (PM-JAY) scheme

· Health Policy Experts

· Other Senior Managers/Officers dealing with data at district level

· Information Systems Professionals

· Physicians, pharmacists, social workers, and other allied health professionals interested in expanding their understanding of digital health, big data, health information systems