Data Flow Diagram Project For Perinatal Follow Up Program

Abstract

The author wrote this internship report to provide and describe, in detail, her duties to successfully achieve the data flow diagram project. This internship project was conducted from May 2 to July 29 2016 for the perinatal follow up program at IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Canada.

The internship opportunity provided the author on-the-job training, which linked the academic health informatics knowledge with real world healthcare as IWK Health Center. The internship’s experiences comprised of a variety of responsibilities and multitasking abilities, which made it a valuable learning experience for the author. Moreover, it was a great chance to learn how to bridge the information-communication gap between the PFUP director and the PFUP team members, and to map an accurate data flow diagram that reflects a real world scenario at PFUP. The PFUP is a very busy environment dealing with complex patient health conditions, such as extremely high-risk, very high-risk, and high-risk. The author dealt with various challenges to find suitable methods to visualize the PFUP complex processes by data flow diagram. At the end of the internship the author made a presentation for the PFUP team members to explain the project work and the final product was delivered to the director of PFUP as context, Level -0, and level –1 data flow diagrams.