Introductions Thread

[Chris Paton]

Hi Everyone,

This thread is to introduce yourself on the site and to let people know about your background.

I'm a Research Fellow at the University of Auckland. I'm from the UK originally and now a permanent resident of New Zealand.

Cheers!

Chris

[Dr Vikas Gaur]

Hi everyone,

I am a M.B.B.S ; M.D (Psychiatry) doctor from India. Completed my M.D in January 2007.

Currently doing Post graduation (MS) in Health Informatics from City University London.

Cheers

Vikas

[H. Riazi]

I'm M.D., and Medical Informatics Management [MSc] is my second field of study,
Specially in the field of Electronic Health Record and other national eHealth projects.
H.Riazi

[Abbas Shojaee]

Thank you for this initiative

I am a M.D., PhD student. During last 13 years I practiced combining scientific aspects and achievements of Biomedical Informatics and the industrial software development methods. I think this approach is critical toward successful real solutions to solve real problems. By now it seems that there is still a huge gap between scientific departments and solution providers.

I have been
1- doing researching (EHR, Neural Networks, HL7 standard, Knowledge representation, Medical Expert Systems and Usability of EHR),
2- consultant to HIS and EHR projects (Software architecture and design and strategic planning for technology employment)
3- developing EHR applications and disease registry

Regards

[Wes Spears]

I am the CEO of a company that provides stability to the Healthcare Industry in Houston, Texas through IT and Practice Management solutions.

[Nancy]

I am a database administrator in a company that works in the Healthcare provider field. I am exploring this forum and field because I am interested in both information (databases) and Healthcare. I am trying to find out how to merge my two interests. Any suggestions, ideas, welcome.
Nancy Lytle
Florida, USA

[NAsriah Zakaria]

Hi everyone,
I am Nasriah Zakaria a lecturer at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. I just completed my Phd from Syracuse University, USA in 2006 investigating how patients share their health information with their family, friends, medical team using Privacy and Disclosure lens. I am back in Malaysia and actively working in the Human Factors in Health Informatics research.

Nice to join the group

[Dr Rajeev Joshi]

Hello, everybody. I am a practicing paediatrician interested in medical informatics. I have completed development of Single Software System for all medical specialties and superspecialties after experimenting with clinical database models for about 15 years. Was selected for fellowship in Biomedical Informatics (2008) by National Library of Medicine, USA. Attended week long intense training program in Biomedical Informatics at Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole (near Boston). Conducting training programs in the form of workshops in medical colleges, software companies, institutional hospitals and associations of doctors to spread awareness regarding this interdisciplinary area of immense importance.

[Joep Djojodibroto]

My name is Joep Djojodibroto. I am a medical doctor, work in Grhasia Mental Hospital in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
I am going to take a Master Course in Health Informatics (2009 - Australia or NZ) specially in EMR and currently looking for scholarship.

Best regards,

JAD

[Sunday Morabu]

Hi everybody ,

I am Health informatics scientists from Tanzania ,we are supporting implementation of Open source HMIS ,in Health facilities .on the other hand we are supporting also the use of Online referal system (Telemedicine) to Health facilities .
We do assist Hospitals in the issues of connectivity and computer applications in provisions of quality health service delivery .

Cheeers

Sunday

[Roy Alger]

Hi to all

My name is Roy Alger, from Cape Town, South Africa. I have been in Health Informatics for almost 30 years, working for various Vendor companies.

One of the reasons that I am here is to keep people informaed about MEDINFO 2010, the 13th Medical and Health Informatics conference of IMIA, which takes place in Africa for the first time ever.

www.medinfo2010.org

Hope to see you all here in 2010.

Regards

Roy

[Dick Heller]

Thanks. Dick Heller here in Sydney. I am the coordinator of the Peoples-uni (http://peoples-uni.org) to use open source resources and delivery mechanisms to help with Public Health capacity building in resource-poor settings. We welcome collaboration from any individual or organisation. Best wishes.

[Dr. Milind N. Datar]

Hello friends, I am a Medical Doctor (Consulting Family Physician and Consultant in Medical Informatics) from Pune, India. I got an interest in Medical informatics after visiting US and working there in Ultrasonography department in one hospital in Florida. After returning to India I completed my Diploma in Computer Management (DCM) with flying colours from University of Pune. Then I started my own consulting business in Medical Informatics named C-Doc Inc. I was one among the firsts who started working in Medical Informatics faculty in India. We did the development of many Software Systems for most of the Medical Specialities and Superspecialities, and allied businesses like pharmacies and diagnostic centres, after doing thorough and careful research of the client requirements and medical database models for about last 17 years under the name "Panacea Clinic Management Software" and "Hospower Hospital Management Software". At the same time I studied further and did my Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in Marketing Management and then in Systems Management, again with flying colours from University of Pune. In the year 1999 we had to suspend our operations due to lack of trained manpower and then I joined MDIndia a Medical Vortal in the capacity of Business Development Manager and got developed a Medical Vertical Portal called www.mdindia.com After resigning MDIndia we once again resumed the operations of our business firm with the help of an angel investor and one friend Dr. Aniket Joshi, a qualified Medical Informatician from Monash University, Australia. In between I did my certifications in Software Engineering by Microsoft and then Software Test Engineering (CSTE) from QAI (USA), a premier and respectable software testing certifying authority, worldwide. Since then we have made many modifications and upgrades in the software platforms giving due consideration to changes in operating systems and hardware platforms. At present we are working on a comprehensive solution using SAP and Microsoft Navision in partnership with a very senior ERP Consultant having an experience of 20+ years in this field and also with the help of a leading university in Pune and a mid-size ERP software company having its offices in Pune, Mumbai and Singapore. Unfortunately the response in India to Medical Informatics at conceptual level is very limited even though the awareness to computers is there, hence now we are concentrating on conducting training workshops in medical colleges, social forums, pharma companies, welfare institutions, multi-speciality hospitals and medical associations to spread awareness about Medical and Health Informatics.

Dr. Milind Datar, Pune, India.