Health Informatics Internship Reports: Recent submissions
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Development of reports containing health indicators generated with data extracted from cancer data management software
(2012-05-24)This report describes the Master of Health Informatics internship undertaken by James Wills at the Nova Scotia Breast Screening Program (NSBSP) in 2011. NSBSP is mandated to provide early detection of breast cancer through ... -
Developing Policies and Managing Medical Records at North End Community Health Centre
(2012-05-24)The internship was completed at North End Community Health Centre (NECHC) at Halifax, NS. The main focus of the internship was to develop Policy and Procedure Manuals to manage the medical records at NECHC. Other ... -
Practical Use of ACSiS to Strengthen National Disease Management Programs
(2012-05-24)The information required to determine health needs, the delivery of services and the availability and use of the ever dwindling scarce resources in many countries is the driving force pushing many countries to create or ... -
Utility of Synoptic Reporting to Improve Operative Reports for Spinal Cord Injury Patients
(2012-05-04)The author did his internship in the Division of Neurosurgery of Capital District Health Authority (CDHA) in Halifax. This organization is one of the acute care and rehabilitation hospitals across the country, which is ... -
A Drug Utilization Study: Use of Sedative Hypnotic Drugs in Acute Care, Hospital In-patients
(2012-05-02)This report summarizes the internship work of Kunal Mohindra, a Master in Health Informatics candidate (2009-2011) for the period: May 3, 2010 – August 31, 2010. The internship was completed as a part of the HINF 7000: ... -
Evaluating the Coverage of Health Informatics Terms in the MeSH Thesaurus: Critical Analysis of a Newly Created Health Informatics Glossary
(2012-05-02)As an integral part of the Master in Health Informatics (MHI) program at Dalhousie University, internship provides a good opportunity for MHI students to apply academic health informatics knowledge in healthcare work to ... -
Development of the Integrated Patient Information System for the Geriatric Day Hospital at the QEII
(2012-05-01)The internship was completed at the Geriatric Medicine Research Unit in the Veteran’s Memorial Building in Halifax. The internship work was performed from June 1st to August 31st, 2008. The internship objective was to ... -
Creation and Design of Patient Typing and Comment (PTC) Database
(2012-04-30)The Patient Typing and Comment (PTC) database was initially proposed by Bryan Crocker and Dr. Calvino Cheng. The division of Pathology Informatics at Capital Health does not have a central database to access patients’ ... -
Rolling out COWs and an electronic documentation system for interdisciplinary staff on two pilot units in a long term care facility
(2012-04-30)This report discusses how work performed during the internship at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Aging & Veterans Care (SHSC, A&VC) relates to the field of health informatics. The objectives of the internship were ... -
Development of a Policy and Procedure Manual for the Surveillance and Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Care Nova Scotia
(2012-04-30)The internship was completed at the Surveillance and Epidemiology Unit (SEU) at Cancer Care Nova Scotia (CCNS). The SEU is responsible for collecting and analyzing data on all diagnosed cases of cancer in Nova Scotia. This ... -