Saptarshi Purkayastha initiates innovative research that focuses on data in the field of health care. He has worked on and helped to implement projects around the world involving:
- National health information systems
- Telemedicine
- CAD applications
- mHealth
- Real time decision-making in robots
- GPGPU acceleration
- Distributed video encoding
- Educational technology for dyslexics
Research Interests:
- Electronic health record (EHR) systems
- Mobile health information systems
- Health information interoperability
- Information infrastructures
His experience in developing and evaluating educational technology for dyslexics will be useful for this program. His main area of focus has been discipline-based education research, where he combines active learning strategies with process-oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) in multi-disciplinary biomedical informatics classes that have students with backgrounds in medicine, nursing, computer science, business, economics, law, and pharmacy.
Dr. Purkayastha’s research interests are in teaching-learning infrastructures, EHR systems, mobile health information systems, health information interoperability, and information infrastructures.
Research Areas:
- Radiology Information Systems
- Biomedical Data Analysis
- Mobile Health
- Electronic Health Records
