M.Tech - Medical Informatics

Course Description :

M. Tech in Medical Informatics at MIT is designed to cater to the increasing demand for analyzing medical data that involves data visualization and Artificial intelligence. It is a two-year postgraduate degree program taught by MIT and industry experts. It is a unique multidisciplinary program that bridges Healthcare, Computer Science, and Statistics. The program is embedded with industry-required skillsets to facilitate the required clinical decision support systems and other smart healthcare services. The students will get a unique opportunity to enhance their skills with the current tools with a focus on medical data/information visualization and analysis; with an understanding of clinical decision support systems, machine learning, and deep learning for meeting the current needs. It enhances the capabilities needed to manage and transform the existing modalities into useful healthcare facilities by applying the knowledge of data engineering and data science along with AI-based approaches.  Further, the program involves a project / research-based learning system, regular industry-institute interaction, guest lectures, and workshops with a state of art facilities. 

Focus:

·   To enhance the skills to solve the issues of handling medical data with the computer aided solutions.

·   To create research environment in the field of medical informatics.

·   To solve multidisciplinary problems involved in healthcare with the knowledge of advances in data engineering and data science.

·   To encourage entrepreneurship in the field of Medical Informatics.

Career Prospects:

·         Medical data analyst / Application Analyst

·         AI / Data scientist

·         Medical software product developer

·         Healthcare IT consultant

·         Policy makers, Research, and development engineers in public sector

·         Manufacturing companies/start-ups. 

Program Structure and Syllabus (Click on this link to access program structure)