My name is Prof. Dr. Suman Bhusan Bhattacharyya and am a Health Informatics Expert and General Medical Practitioner

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I provide consultancy in the digital health information space and help in information modeling for semantic interoperability, designing innovative electronic clinical records systems that are interoperable and standards-based. By leveraging SNOMED CT, I can help interested parties to have an EHR/EMR system that is intuitive, easy-to-use and capable of generating rich data that can readily be analysed in real-time to produce information that can help deliver optimal levels of care. If interested, do feel free to get in touch.

I am an Adjunct Professor in Chitkara Business School, Chitkara University, Punjab where I teach digital health information standards and interoperability to MBA Healthcare IT.

I have done MBBS from India, and MBA in International Management (capstone thesis was on telemedicine) from Belgium. In July 2015 I was honoured with a Fellowship of College General Practioners. I also know computer programming and although I have several diplomas and certificates in the same, all of my health informatics knowledge is self-taught.

My principal interests are in the field of medical data science, EHR, remote patient care and artificially intelligent clinical decision support systems.

I currently serve as Convener, AYUSH Informatics Working Group, and as Member & current Head of Delegation to ISO TC215 (Health Informatics), Healthcare Informatics Sectional Committee, MHD17, Bureau of Indian Standards. I was Vice-Chairman Election Commission, IMA Haryana State for IMA Years 2017 - 2020. I also have the honour of serving as an expert on several Government of India Healthcare IT and Health Informatics-related committees. 

I have written two books, the first entitled 'Introduction to SNOMED CT' that was published by Springer in 2016 and the second entitled 'A DIY Guide to Telemedicine for Clinicians' that was published by them in2017. I also have several publications in national and international magazines on a wide-ranging topics related to health informatics (the links to these are in the menu to the left).

I have previously served as President of Indian Association for Medical Informatics (IAMI) for the 2010 - 2011 session, Honorary Secretary of Indian Medical Association (IMA) Faridabad Branch for 2010 - 2011, 2011 - 2012 and 2012 - 2013 sessions, Governing Council Member, IMACGP, IMA Haryana State for 2012 & 2013 sessions and Member, Healthcare IT Group, IMA Headquarters (2010 - 2012), Honorary State Secretary, IMA Haryana State Branch (2015), Chairman, Disciplinary Committee, IMA Haryana State (2016).

I have more than 33 years of experience in the fields of family medical practice, health informatics, and hospital administration. I have worked as full-time healthcare domain expert to such IT companies as Megasoft, iSOFT PLC, Satyam Computer Services, Oracle, GE Healthcare IITS, Karishma Software and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) from where I have recently taken early retirement to pursue independent consultation and business venture in the exciting field of digital health.

My experience in computers ranges from PCs running such OS as DOS, WIndows™, UNIX, Linux; programming languages like PHP, HTML, JavaScript, ASP, C, Java 2, Perl, VBScript, VB, BASIC, Markdown; database applications like Neo4j™, MySQL™, Oracle™, SQL Server™, Foxpro™, Access™; Networking in Novel NetWare™; besides the normal office application suites. I also know R and have working knowledge of Octave and the Python language.

Currently I am focusing on information modeling for semantic interoperability, application of machine learning techniques in healthcare in terms of predictive analytics and simulations, use of SNOMED-CT in Clinical Analytics, especially predictive analytics, Internet of Healthcare Things and Big Data Analytics in Healthcare.