Browsing Health Informatics Internship Reports by Submit Date
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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), ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Evaluation of Medication Turnaround Time Following Implementation of Scanning Digital Prescriber Order Technology
(2012-05-30)This internship project is a retrospective summative evaluation to assess medication turnaround time (the time between medication order composition to the time the medication is delivered to the nursing unit) before and ... -
Teaching Postgraduate Health Informatics Courses through Video Conference Supported Collaborative Learning Environments
(2012-05-30)This report discusses a representative subset of an internship project undertaken by Hanin Abdulhameed Shalaby, a Master of Health Informatics student at Dalhousie University. This research project focused on using video ... -
Designing a Medication Screening Tool for the Geriatric Day Hospital at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Capital Health
(2012-05-30)The internship was completed at “The Geriatric Day Hospital (GDH) which is part of the centre for health care of the elderly at the QEII Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Day Hospital provides different ... -
Competencies for Learning and Working in E-Health Environment Summer Institute of Health Informatics and Canadian Medical Association Electronic Medical Records case study
(2012-05-30)Knowledge learned in academic settings is solidified and made practical via apprenticeship experiences. The internships in the Master of Health Informatics at Dalhousie University program helps students bridge their knowledge ... -
Database/System Design of Healthy Beginning Program
(2012-05-30)Healthy Beginning component is one of the two components of the Building Decision-support through Dynamic Workflow Systems for Health care project which is led by Dr. Wendy MacCaull, professor in the Department of Mathematics, ... -
Reports Requirement Analysis and Gap Analysis of Colon Cancer Prevention Program and Testing of Colon Cancer Screening Application
(2012-05-30)The author’s 13 week internship was at Cancer Care Nova Scotia for the Colon Cancer Screening program. The intern joined the organization at the planning and development of the program. The main responsibilities included ... -
Enhancing Cancer Systemic Therapy Surveillance in Nova Scotia: Development of Quality Indicators and Exploration of a Potential Data Source
(2012-06-05)The internship project described in this report was to research indicators and health care quality frameworks as related to cancer systemic therapy. Part of the project was also to explore the potential linkage of data ... -
Metadata Repository for Population Health Research
(2012-06-05)The internship was performed at the Population Health Research Unit (PHRU) and the Health Outcomes Research Unit (HORU). The objectives were to work with the health data management group and practice health informatics ... -
Assessing Privacy Implications and Data Quality Issues for Implementation of a Provincial Client Registry
(2012-06-05)Once implemented, a Client Registry is considered to be the authoritative source of patient demographic information throughout a jurisdiction. This makes it an important foundational element of the Electronic Health Record ...