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George Brown College Health Informatics Internship Program 24

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George Brown College
George Brown College
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Thérèse Bernier
Thérèse Bernier
Program coordinator & Professor
(10)
5
Timeline
  • October 22, 2024
    Experience start
  • December 14, 2024
    Experience end
Experience
1/1 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any company type
Hospital, health, wellness & medical
Categories
Information technology UI design UX design Public health Healthcare
Skills
it design problem solving business analytics critical thinking data analysis
Learner goals and capabilities

Students will work in teams of 1-4 and spend 240 hours per student to understand and tackle the problem of your choosing. Students will provide a document and presentation summarizing their findings as well as provide knowledge transfer to your organization. In terms of the students' interests in placements, they are looking for opportunities in product support, project coordinator, business analyst (gathering requirements, workflow design, and improvement), QA tester, training users in HIT, and privacy analyst. They are open to other opportunities as well.

Learners
Post-graduate
Intermediate levels
10 learners
Project
240 hours per learner
Educators assign learners to projects
Individual projects
Expected outcomes and deliverables
  1. Documents including: Project charter, Project plan, Requirements analysis document, Business requirements document, Implementation plan
  2. End-user training material
  3. A one-hour project summary presentation
  4. Other deliverables as required by the partner
Project timeline
  • October 22, 2024
    Experience start
  • December 14, 2024
    Experience end
Project Examples

Project examples include but not limited to:

  • Formulate change strategies to implement appropriate health information systems technologies (HIST).
  • Apply business and system analysis techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of health information systems technologies
  • Integrate relevant standards and professional, ethical and legislative requirements with the appropriate health information system technologies.
  • Design training and education for the effective use of HIST.

Past projects:

ABAKiS Solutions

- Redesign an existing web application for autism therapy team

- Deliverables: project charter, project plan, requirements document, website redesign using Balsamiq

Seasons Retirement Communities

- Design the prototype of a mobile health app

- Deliverables: project charter, survey, project plan, requirements document, prototype build using Adobe XD

Anahana Wellness

- Design the prototype of a mobile health app

- Deliverables: project charter, project plan, requirements document, prototype build using Figma

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

A representative of the company will be available to answer questions from students in a timely manner for the duration of the project.

A representative of the company will be available for a pre-selection discussion with the administrator of the internship program to review the project scope.