Health Informatics: Recent submissions
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Fully Automated Wait Time Report Generator for Nova Scotia Breast Screening Program
(2012-05-29)In Canada, breast cancer is the most common type of cancer to afflict women. Although late stages are difficult to treat, prognoses for earlier stages are quite promising. Early detection is of paramount value in the ... -
Planning the Implementation of the Workload Measurement System – Emerald’s Dynamine(TM) and Dynaboard(TM)
(2012-05-29)Case costing data is required in order to effectively manage a health care organization such as the Capital District Health Authority. The workload measurement project was initiated because it was information that was ... -
Methadone Maintenance Treatment Service Evaluation and Critical Appraisal of the Electronic Database at Addiction Prevention and Treatment Services, Nova Scotia Hospital
(2012-05-29)This report summarizes the internship work of Patryk Simon, a Master in Health Informatics candidate. The internship was completed from April 26 to August 19, 2011 at the Addiction Prevention and Treatment Services (APTS), ... -
Development of a Prostate Cancer Patient PSA History Calculator To Support Patient Follow-Up Scheduling Decisions
(2012-05-28)The primary goal of this Health Informatics (HI) work-term was to develop a software application which can be used by the Radiation Oncology Department of the QEII to predict the probability that a patient’s prostate ... -
Development of a Case Index for a Clinical Document Repository for Chronic Kidney Disease Management
(2012-05-28)The internship placement was supervised to build a case index for clinical documents repository in order to use as a portal website tool to teach medical resident students. This internship was performed from September 7, ... -
ITANIUM: System Transformation for US-based Health Claim Adjudication
(2012-05-28)As a partial requirement of MHI program at Dalhousie University, the author had the opportunity to join Keane Canada Inc Halifax, Nova Scotia where the author worked for Tufts: one of the leading insurance companies in ... -
Creation of SNOMED CT Code Set for Rick Hansen Spinal Cord Injury Registry (RHSCIR) Data Entry Forms
(2012-05-28)The Rick Hansen Spinal Cord Injury (RHSCI) Institute granted this internship opportunity to the author, which began on May 25th and was extended to 10th December 2010. The author’s part of the project included the creation ... -
Using R and Latex to Develop Automated Wait Time Report Generator for Nova Scotia Screening Program
(2012-05-28)According to the Nova Scotia Breast Screening Program, with the presence of long waiting time lists there is an increasing need for automatic analysis methods to determine the causes of its existence. The AutoReport Generator ... -
IT Manager
(2012-05-28)Health informatics is a program that promotes and supports the use of health information in health services delivery, health management systems, research, learning and health policy development for the purpose of improving ... -
Update the learning module (to support a HI course) on HL7 Version 3 and the HL7 Development Framework
(2012-05-28)The Internship work included development of new learning modules and files and updating of the existing learning modules and files of the “Introduction to HL7” part of the home page of http://healthinfo.med.dal.ca. The ... -
CIHR Team in Access to Children’s Mental Health Services, the CATHI Pilot Project
(2012-05-28)The healthcare system, like any other system, is an intricate web of elements that combine together to form many components and processes. Currently Canada is working towards improving their healthcare system to allow for ... -
Analysis, Design and Implement of Database for Wheelchair Skills Program
(2012-05-28)The author was employed as a Health Informatics Analyst Intern to analyze, create, design, and implement a web-based interface to the database for the Wheelchair Skills Program (WSP). The health informatics component of ... -
Health Informatics in Psychosocial Oncology
(2012-05-25)This report provides a brief account of the author’s internship and details a proposed process for strengthening the provision of psychosocial care, information, and support for cancer patients and their families. The ... -
Deployment of an Electronic Documentation System for the IWK Regional Poison Centre
(2012-05-25)The Nova Scotia Emergency Management Office (EMO/911) is mandated with coordinating the province’s response to emergency situations. EMO/911 provided funding to create an electronic documentation system for the IWK Regional ... -
Modeling a Health Care Enterprise
(2012-05-25)The federal government is responsible for the direct or indirect medical care of nearly a million people. It is the fifth largest jurisdiction in Canada. Certain groups, such as members of the military, inmates at federal ... -
Improving Quality of Patient Information
(2012-05-25)The level of data to process and the need of up-to-date data for quick analysis and decision-making are vital to retain its present position and growth in the industry. Hence, the Slic Laser decided to computerize their ... -
Mental Health Outpatient Information System (MHOIS) Data Quality Improvement Project
(2012-05-25)Mental Health Outpatient Information System (MHOIS) is used to store demographic, socio-economic, administrative and clinical data of mental health patients seen at various facilities offering Mental Health Services ... -
Data Management and Data Analysis
(2012-05-25)Health Informatics focuses on the application of computer information systems to health care and public health. A major focus of it is the support of information systems for reasoning, decision-making, and learning to ... -
Data Compilation for the WHO Global Survey of Mode of Delivery and Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes
(2012-05-25)Although in many circumstances, caesarean birth is chosen by the health care provider to improve maternal and/or neonatal outcomes, the procedure is generally connected with increased incidences of mortality or morbidity ... -
Construction of an Ideal Info-Structure in a Pediatric Emergency Setting & “What is Health Informatics?” Definition Video
(2012-05-25)This report was written as part of an internship towards the completion of a Masters of Health Informatics Degree. Two separate projects were worked on over the course of the internship. The first of which dealt with the ...