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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 ... -
Design of a Decision Support System for an Electronic Medical Record System
(2013-12-10)The intent of the internship was to attempt the design and implementation of a Decision Support System (DSS) in support of the Primary Healthcare Information Management (PHIM) program, an initiative within the Nova Scotia ... -
Designing a Database to Facilitate Efficient Information Management at the Health Mentors Program Office
(2016-03-23)This report describes the internship work performed at the Health Mentors program (HMP) office at Dalhousie University. HMP is an inter-professional education program under Dalhousie’s Faculties of Medicine, Health Professions ... -
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 ... -
Designing and Building an Internal Database at AGADA Biosciences
(2017-04-27)This report keeps track of the author’s internship at AGADA Biosciences in Halifax, Nova Scotia. AGADA Biosciences is a company who specializes in performing pre-clinical studies using murine models. They focus on ... -
Determining Requirements for a Practice Relevant Database for the Ophthalmology Clinic at The Medical Centre
(2015-09-09)Rising hospital operational costs concomitant with ever increasing patient demands have put a considerable strain on the health economy. Improving fragmented patient flow processes, incorporating cost effective technological ... -
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 ... -
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 Clinical Rounds Module Under the CAISIS Platform
(2012-09-11)This paper presents and documents tasks and research performed during the author’s Master of Health Informatics internship at the Diagnostic Radiology Department in collaboration with the Nova Scotia Breast Screening Program ... -
Development of a Database Driven Web Application: Health and Wellness in My Family
(2012-09-11)The scope of the project revolved around the development of an online inventory tool which would help Issak Walton Killam (IWK) Health Centre understand the health of the community in a better way. The scope also involved ... -
Development of a HL7 CDA R2 Compliant Discharge Summary Teaching Template for the QEII Renal Clinic
(2012-08-02)Internships give students of Health Informatics opportunities to receive on-the-job training and to connect their academic health informatics knowledge to the real world. This internship is composed of two objectives, ... -
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 ... -
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 PDA Version Cancer Management Guidelines
(2012-08-21)The internship was performed in Cancer Care Nova Scotia (CCNS) from May 9th to September 2nd, 2005. The objective of the internship work was to convert the cancer management guidelines developed by Cancer Site Teams of ... -
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 ... -
Development of the Health System Use Project (HSU)
(2012-08-21)In order to fully understand health care, one must first recognize and acknowledge the many uses for health system data. To this end it is necessary to develop methods and solutions that can capture information for its ... -
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 ... -
Diagnostics and prospective outcome of a diffuse glioneuronal tumor with oligodendroglioma-like features and nuclear clusters after surgical resection (DGONC): a case report
(Oxford University Press, 2022-10-25)Diffuse glioneuronal tumors with oligodendroglioma-like features and nuclear clusters (DGONC) are rare tumors of the central nervous system, having been added as a provi-sional diagnosis in the ... -
Do health care providers trust product monograph information regarding use of vaccines in pregnancy? A qualitative study
(Health Canada, 2018-06-07)Background: In uenza immunization is recommended in pregnancy to prevent severe infections in pregnant women and newborns, yet vaccine uptake remains low. Studies suggest that cautionary language in vaccine product monographs ... -
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 ...