Programme Content
Human Physiology: The study of how the human body works, including cells, tissues, organs, and systems.
Healthcare Fundamentals: The basic principles of healthcare, such as anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology.
Human Biomechanics: The study of the mechanical properties of the human body and how they affect movement, including the musculoskeletal system, biomechanics of gait, and biomechanics of sports.
Space Biomechanics: The study of the effects of the space environment on the human body, including microgravity, radiation, and isolation.
Patient flow management and facility planning and layout: Planning and coordinating the movement of patients through the healthcare system.
Resource management and Capacity planning for hospitals: Ensuring that the right resources are available to the right patients at the right time, including staff, equipment, and supplies. Capacity planning for hospitals, Inventory management.
Quality improvement: Implementing processes to improve the quality of care, including patient safety, patient satisfaction, and clinical outcomes.
Pharmacokinetics: The study of how drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.
Pharmacodynamics: The study of how drugs interact with the body to produce an effect.
Drug delivery systems: The route-specific delivery, recent strategies, biomedical polymers and sustained drug delivery.
Predictive modelling: Using data to predict future outcomes, such as readmission risk or patient mortality.
Treatment optimization: Identifying the most effective treatments for individual patients based on their data.
Personalized care: Tailoring care to the individual needs of each patient.
Fundamentals (up to Industry 3.0): Various manufacturing processes, Just-in-time, Kaizen, Automation, and Control systems.
Sensing, Actuating and Communicating Technologies: Various types of sensors, actuators, wireless communications and PLCs.
Cyber-physical systems: Integrating physical systems with digital systems to automate and optimize processes.
Internet of Things (IoT): Connecting medical devices to the internet to collect and analyze data.
Additive Manufacturing: Technologies for metal, polymer, ceramic and biological/ organic materials, Generative Design, Digital Inventory.
Cloud computing: Storing and accessing healthcare data in the cloud.
Demonstration: Generative Design, Haptic Devices for patient/subject-specific Medical Device Design, Additive Mfg., IoT-based 3D printing.
Why Industry 5.0: Reorganization costs, productivity, robots vs. cobots, advantages over Industry 4.0.
Human-centered design: Human factors, design of workspaces, injury-prone zones, fatigue reduction.
Machine Learning: Using AI to diagnose diseases, develop personalized treatment plans, and automate tasks.
Robotics: Using robots to perform surgery, provide care, and assist with rehabilitation.
Augmented reality/ virtual reality: Machine vision, haptics, virtual planning, gesture control.
Cobotics: Advanced automation and control, (LiDAR, RADAR), Haptics, Human-machine Interface.
Blockchain: Emerging technologies like blockchain in healthcare for secure data management and interoperability.
Demonstration: Surgical cobots, cobots in packaging and assembly.
Environmental sustainability: Reducing the environmental impact of healthcare operations.
Fair labor practices: Ensuring that employees are treated fairly and compensated appropriately.
Community engagement: Working with the community to improve health outcomes.
Ethics: A section on healthcare ethics and privacy considerations in the era of advanced technologies.
Identifying risks: Recognizing potential hazards that could harm patients, staff, or the organization.
Assessing risks: Evaluating the likelihood and severity of potential risks.
Managing risks: Implementing strategies to mitigate or eliminate risks.
Regulatory approvals: Obtaining necessary approvals from government agencies for new drugs, medical devices, and other healthcare products.
Risk-mitigation strategies: Design modifications, material modifications, risk-mitigation.
Capstone project involves literature survey and/or analysis and/or synthesis on a topic related to Healthcare or an application of technology for Healthcare, including but not limited to robotics, cobotics, augmented reality, biomechanics, medical devices and physiology. The Capstone project will involve about 4 to 5 students working towards a common topic.
