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Health Information and Privacy Impact Assessments
(2012-06-05)The Romanow Report recommends that “Canadians should have ownership over their personal health information, ready access to their personal health records, clear protection of the privacy of their health records, and better ... -
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 ... -
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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 ... -
Semantic Interoperability for Reliable Information Interchange: Status and Challenges
(2012-06-05)This report is an account of the author’s work performed at Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) during the work term from June 14th to September 3rd, 2004. Infoway is an independent but publicly funded organisation responsible ... -
Mental Health Information System Implementation in the Rouge Valley Health System
(2012-06-11)The adoption of electronic information systems is globally seen as one of the important strategies for improvement of quality of care, preventing medical errors, and reducing costs and delays. In order to improve quality ... -
Planning the Design and Implementation of an Application for Surveillance of Notifiable Disease
(2012-06-11)This internship was completed at the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, Nova Scotia Department of Health during the months of January – April 2006. The intern reported to Dr Maureen Baikie, Deputy Chief Medical ... -
The Health Outcomes for Better Information and Care Initiative: Implementing Nursing Sensitive Outcomes Measurement Across Sectors of the Health Care System
(2012-07-31)The measurement and assessment of patient health outcomes is important for ensuring that health care organizations are providing the best and most effective care. The Health Outcomes for Better Information and Care (HOBIC) ... -
Systems Analysis at Capital District Health Authority
(2012-07-31)Health Informaticians are faced with a tough challenge in today’s healthcare environment – to deliver innovative solutions for improving the way we deliver healthcare, while keeping within a strict budget. Capital District ... -
Adaptive Clinical Pathway Using Semantic Web
(2012-07-31)Internship report - Winter 2005 It is commonly believed that the quality of healthcare can be improved by taking advantage of the latest medical knowledge and best practices. This is especially true when designing clinical ... -
Using MetaMap Program to Map Medical Curriculum to MCC and One45 Controlled Vocabulary
(2012-07-31)This project was undertaken in order to assist Dalhousie University’s UGME department in tracking the frequency at which particular concepts appear within its curriculum. Data was generated for the sake of analysis regarding ... -
Life Cycle of CIHI’s Briefing Report: “Seniors’ Experiences with Chronic Disease Prevention and Management in Primary Health Care across Canada”
(2012-07-31)The scope of the project was to highlight the areas of improvement in management of chronic condition outcomes in elderly patients, so that appropriate policies could be implemented to overcome any gaps between the patients ... -
Creation, Design and Implementation of Breast Reconstruction Surgical Database Network (::BRecSDNet)
(2012-07-31)The Breast Reconstruction Surgical Database Network (BRecSDNet) was initially proposed by Dr. Leif Sigurdson because the division of plastic surgery at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences centre does not have a central ... -
Health Information Management in a Critical Care Environment
(2012-07-31)This internship report involves the reworking of the data collection processes for the Division of Critical Care in the Capital District Health Authority. With attention to Health Informatics methods, interview processes ... -
Preliminary Computer-based Healthcare System for Ministry of Health of Syria
(2012-07-31)This internship work is an initial step in designing a Healthcare System for the Arabian Republic of Syria. Syria itself is located at the eastern edges of the Mediterranean Sea, at the Middle East area in Asia. It has a ... -
Documentation and Analysis of GASHA Hospice Palliative Care Delivery Processes
(2012-07-31)The internship placement took place at the StFX Centre for Logic and Information (CLI) in Antigonish, NS, and reported directly to the director of CLI, Dr. Wendy MacCaull, professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer ... -
Database Design for Sentinel Lymph Node Dissection of Breast Cancer
(2012-08-02)This 13-week internship project in Cancer Cancer Nova Scotia was aimed to design a database to collect information of sentinel lymph node dissection (SLND) for the credentialing of physicians who are interested to provide ... -
Strategy for Aligning EHR Projects of the Federal Health Delivery Departments with Canada Health Infoway
(2012-08-02)The internship that was completed at Canada Health Infoway in the summer of 2004 allowed the author to understand Infoway as a strategic investor and internal processes for program targets, project selection, funding models ... -
Computerization of paper based Glaucoma strategy AND Update of “Patient Information System” developed by Dr. Lesya Shuba
(2012-08-02)Dr. Raymond P LeBlanc is an eminent Senior Canadian Ophthalmologist, Glaucoma specialist. He is a visionary person. On my request and interest he provided me a work opportunity to computerize the paper based “Glaucoma ... -
South Western Nova Scotia District Health Authorities Information Systems Strategic Plan
(2012-08-02)The internship placement reported to the Director of Information Services for the three District Health Authorities of South Western Nova Scotia. The objective was to construct a five-year information systems strategic ...