University of Health Sciences Lahore

Overview and Working

Information Technology (IT) is essential for the growth of every field of life/sector and it has also found a definite role in the Human Health Sector as almost all sensitive medical equipment's are equipped with microprocessor and being programmed to do particular jobs with the help of properly developed software, therefore Information Technology will play a vital role in the future development of Pakistan Health Sector. Govt. of Pakistan has launched its IT policy to keep pace with technologically developed countries. Information Technology department was established in 2004. The main objective of IT Department is to automate / computerize the working of UHS Lahore, to provide a highly reliable, efficient and secured computerized examination system and to develop IT infrastructure in the affiliated institutions. Online research facility to faculty members/students and above all making an efficient and error free computerized environment.
Working
The center of IT activities is the IT Department which is managing LAN/WAN and providing IT services to all departments/offices of UHS and its affiliated institutes.

IT Achievements

Wireless Internet Services:- 90% of the university campus is covering internet services through the wireless connectivity (i.e. all departments of the university have been linked / connected through wireless access points for providing wireless internet connectivity)

All departments of university have been connected through Gigabit Network. There are currently 500+ nodes accessing different services through the network.

The university is connected through PERN2 (Pakistan Education & Research Network) and 70Mbps international bandwidth is being extended to all the departments of the university. Internet facility has also been extended to affiliated institutes in Lahore whereas 10 Mbps secondary link is available through the local service provider.

A dedicated I.T lab has been established with state of the art computing facilities for enabling the students to have hands on training sessions on different technologies.

The Web Services (www.uhs.edu.pk) are provided through in house hosted webservers.

The class rooms / workshops have been equipped with the latest audio and visual equipment including multimedia projectors, slide projectors, public address / conference systems and interactive white board technologies.

The University has a dedicated video conferencing room equipped with hardware based video conferencing facility for live interaction with international and local participants.

The indigenous Campus Management Solution is designed to cater the needs of different departments of the university. The solution comprehends all the features relevant to the university and has a complete role based access where in various resources are made available depending upon the role / permission assigned to the end users including.

• Student Registration System
• Biometric Attendance System
• Online Application System for Students appearing in university professional examinations
• Fiinancial Management System(FMS)

Learning Management System (LMS) has been deployed by using 'Moodle' and it has been tailored / customized as per the university requirements. These services are in house hosted and can be accessed through http://lms.uhs.edu.pk.

UHS shares its information and research resources with affiliated institutions for the benefit of their faculty and students through Wireless WAN. The institutions linked to UHS through this network are:

• Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore
• Postgraduate Medical Institute, Lahore
• de' Montmorency College of Dentistry, Lahore
• Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Lahore
• Institute of Public Health, Lahore
• Lahore Medical & Dental College, Lahore
• FMH College of Medicine & Dentistry, Lahore

Computer research & resource labs have been established to strengthen and modernize the regional centres at affiliated institutions:

• Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore
• Postgraduate Medical Institute, Lahore
• Institute of Public Health, Lahore
• de' Montmorency College of Dentistry, Lahore
• CMH Lahore Medical College, Lahore
• Lahore Medical & Dental College, Lahore
• FMH College of Medicine & Dentistry, Lahore
• Rawalpindi Medical University, Rawalpindi
• Punjab Medical University, Faisalabad
• WAH Medical College, Wah Cantt
• Nishtar Medical University, Multan
• Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur
• Sheikh Zayed Medical College, Rahim Yar Khan

Developmental Projects

• Computerization and Networking of UHS, Lahore
• Establishment of Computer Resource Labs at Regional Centres of UHS

Staff

Faisal Amin

Director IT BCom, MCS, MBS, MBA(IT) E-mail : [email protected] Ph: +9242-111 333 366 Ext: 328

M. Adnan Jamil

Network Administrator B.Sc, M.Sc (Comp. Sc.) E-mail : [email protected] Ph: +9242-111 333 366 Ext: 329

Masoud Rauf

Database Administrator B.Sc (Hons) CS, M.Sc (IT) E-mail : [email protected] Ph: +9242-111 333 366 Ext: 329

Zohaib Aslam

Web Developer MS (Computer Science), BS (Computer Science) E-mail : [email protected] Ph: +9242-111 333 366 Ext: 329

Habibullah Khan Mazari

Web Developer BS Computer Science E-mail : [email protected] Ph: +9242-111 333 366 Ext: 329

Waqar Ahmad

Software Engineer BS Computer Sciences E-mail : [email protected] Ph: +9242-111 333 366 Ext: 329

Muhammad Nadeem Ch.

Audio Visual Officer Ph: +9242-111 333 366 Ext: 329

Farakh Iqbal

Social Media Coordinator E-mail : [email protected] Ph: +9242-111 333 366 Ext: 329

Toqueer Ahmad

Lab Attendant Ph: +9242-111 333 366 Ext: 329