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My name is Dr. Suman Bhusan Bhattacharyya. I have done MBBS from India, and MBA in International Management from Belgium. I also know computer programming and although I have several diplomas in the same, most of my IT knowledge is self-taught.

I have 20 years of experience as a medical doctor, 6 years in hospital administration and over 6 years as a full-time healthcare domain expert to such IT companies as iSOFT plc, Satyam Computer Services, Oracle, GE Healthcare IITS, and currently, Karishma Software Ltd.

My 20 years experience in computers range from PCs running such OS as DOS, WIndows™, UNIX, Linux; programming languages like PHP, HTML, Javascript, ASP, C, Java 2, Perl, VBScript, VB, BASIC; database applications like MySQL™, Oracle™, SQL Server™, Foxpro™, Access™; Networking in Novel NetWare™; besides the normal office application suites.

I design business model architectures using UML and perform requirements management besides doing testing. I also help in all phases of software implementation including training and managing customisation requirements.

My principal interests are in the field of medical informatics, especially telemedicine, a subject on which I did my capstone thesis besides evidence based medicine and clinical information systems. Currently I am focusing on clinical intelligence and knowledge discovery in clinical databases.

For the Uninitiated...

Telemedicine: The art of delivering the best of available health care to anyone without the constraints of geographical or technological barriers between the deliverer and the receiver of such care.
Evidence Based Medicine: The current, conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the healthcare of individual patients.
Healthcare Informatics: The study, intervention and implementation of structures and algorithms to improve communication, understanding and management of medical information. All this is made possible through the coalescing of data, knowledge and the tools necessary to apply the above in the decision making process at a time and place that the decision needs to be made. The focus being on the various structures and algorithms necessary to manipulate the information.