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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’ ...
Analysis, Design and Implement of Database for Wheelchair Skills Program
(2012-05-28)
The author was employed as a Health Informatics Analyst Intern to analyze, create, design, and implement a web-based interface to the database for the Wheelchair Skills Program (WSP). The health informatics component of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Global challenges of implementing human papillomavirus vaccines
(BMC Springer Nature, 2011)
Human Papillomavirus vaccines are widely hailed as a sweeping pharmaceutical innovation for the universal benefit of all women. The implementation of the vaccines, however, is far from universal or equitable. Socio- ...
Understanding vaccine hesitancy in Canada: Results of a consultation study by the Canadian Immunization Research Network
(Public Library of Science, 2016-06-03)
“Vaccine hesitancy” is a concept now frequently used in vaccination discourse. The increased popularity of this concept in both academic and public health circles is challenging previously held perspectives that individual ...
Risks of nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics? What the scientists say.
(BMC Springer Nature, 2013-11-29)
Nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics (hereafter NGx) have stimulated expectations for beneficial applications in public health and individuals. Yet, the potential achievability of such promise is not without socioethical ...
Exploring the post-genomic world: differing explanatory and manipulatory functions of post-genomic sciences
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-02-25)
Richard Lewontin proposed that the ability of a scientific field to create a narrative for public understanding garners it social relevance. This article applies Lewontin’s conceptual framework of the functions of science ...