Browsing Health Informatics Internship Reports by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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: ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Evaluation of an Electronic Central Referral Intake System and the Development of a CMS User Reference Manual for Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Centres
(2016-08-11)1.0 Executive Summary 1.1 Scope The CMS User Reference Manual project and the Electronic Central Referral Intake System Feasibility Report project will ultimately extend to all Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Centers ... -
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 ... -
Framework for a web-based breast imaging learning module built on the open-source CAISIS platform and integrated with the new Breast Imaging EMR and existing breast imaging information technology infrastructure at Capital District Health Authority
(2012-09-11)This report describes the work performed during an 18-week summer internship in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at Capital District Health Authority (CDHA) by Master of Health Informatics (MHI) candidate Mete ... -
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 ... -
Furthering an Innovative Approach to Caring for the Frail Elderly
(2016-03-28)People over the age of 65 (seniors) are the fastest growing demographic in Canada representing approximately 15% of the total national population in 2013 and expecting to grow to 24% by 2036 (Statistics Canada). The cost ...