Faculty of Medicine: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Population Health Informatics: Summer Internship Experience at CDHA
(2012-06-05)Internships give students of Health Informatics opportunities to receive on-the-job training and connect their academic health informatics knowledge with the real world. Furthermore, it gives them an opportunity for ... -
Needs Assessment and System Design: Implementation of an Electronic Charting and Database System at a Canadian Poison Centre
(2012-06-05)The IWK Regional Poison Centre at the time of this paper kept only paper-based patient care records. The growing number of queries regarding statistical data on poisonings in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island prompted ... -
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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), ... -
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 ...