Baljit Singh Bedi did his B.Tech and M.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi in Electronics and Communications. After serving for five years in Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE) IIT, Delhi he joined Department of Information Technology (DIT), Government of India. The major responsibilities and contributions over the years cover conceptualizing, evolving and implementation of a number of major Schemes/Programmes and Projects in the field of electronics and IT applications with primary role in Healthcare.
He is instrumental in giving shape to starting an integrated programme in promoting the area of Electronics in Healthcare in India. As result of these initiatives, an impressive range of advanced medical instruments and systems have been made available indigenously. He has been involved in formulation of a nucleus set of recommended standards for telemedicine activity in India. Another major initiative has been in proposing an elaborate and effective framework for IT infrastructure for Healthcare sector to efficiently address all information needs of different stakeholders. As Head of Medical Electronics & Telemedicine Division, he was looking after the activity of promotion of e-Health & Tele–health technology and R&D in Medical Electronics and launched a number of schemes in the area of Tele-health in different states in India including West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Tripura and other Northeastern states, Punjab, H.P., etc.
He is part of the National Task Force Telemedicine in India set up by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoH&FW), Govt. of India and headed the Group on Standards for Telemedicine including Electronic Medical Record. He was a Member of National Knowledge Commission’s Working Group on India-Health Information Network Development (I-HIND). He is actively involved in policy, development and deployment programmes of IT in Health initiatives of DIT, MoH&FW, Media Lab Asia and is part their different Advisory Committees. He is Executive Committee Member of Indian Association of Medical Informatics (IAMI) and Vice President, Telemedicine Society of India (TSI). At present, he is Adviser to Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), under Ministry of Communication & IT, for Health Informatics, Telehealth, Medical Electronics and Assistive Devices.
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