Hands on Training session for Medical and Dental Faculty on CollabDDS was successfully conducted from 21st-22nd April, 2014 at Centre for Dental Education and Research (CDER), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. The workshop was formally inaugurated by Dr. M C Misra, Director AIIMS, Prof. S.V. Raghavan, Scientific Secretary to the Principal Scientific Advisor to GoI and Dr. Shefali Dash, Director General, NIC. The CollabDDS website (www.collabdds.gov.in) was launched along with simultaneous release of a brochure.
CollabDDS is an extension of CollabCAD to Biomedical Applications and is an outcome of the Model Project “Network Enabled Medical Diagnosis and Education in Skeletal Imaging using X-Rays” funded by the National Knowledge Network (NKN). The model project was undertaken as a Proof of Concept to provide a real time collaborative environment to visualize medical and dental images (digitized X-Ray images or DICOM data) for diagnosis and treatment planning. The overall goal is to enable low-cost, real-time collaborative diagnosis between Remote Health Centre technicians or doctors on one side, and expert radiologists on the other side. This was enabled by developing an indigenous, user-friendly digital diagnosis system using the latest technologies and tools, which meets the local requirements and is suitable for wide deployment across the country.
The workshop was conducted as a part of the project “Pilot Implementation of CollabDDS”, which is an extension of the NKN Model Project “Network Enabled Medical Diagnosis and Education in Skeletal imaging using X-Rays”. Four Medical and two Dental Colleges have been selected for participating in the project. The workshop was held in order to provide an introduction to CollabDDS and understanding of the project.
Arti Garg, Delhi