Health Care Analytics Project

MGSC 5151 - 12
Closed
Cape Breton University
Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Assistant Professor
(2)
5
Timeline
  • November 5, 2024
    Experience start
  • November 5, 2024
    Presentation
  • November 11, 2024
    Report Submission
  • November 15, 2024
    Collect data and gather main references.
  • November 17, 2024
    Starting the project and stating main objectives
  • November 21, 2024
    Form introduction and main report categories
  • December 19, 2024
    Experience end
Experience
4/4 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any company type
Business & management, Business services, Hospital, health, wellness & medical, Marketing & advertising

Experience scope

Categories
Data visualization Data analysis Public health Healthcare Scientific research
Skills
No skills listed
Learner goals and capabilities

At the end of the course students will do the project in groups. The focus is on the main issues in the Canadian Healthcare System. Students will choose the project of interest. An example of projects can be: primary care, emergency department, community care, mental health and so on. Students will conduct a literature review of the issue and summarize main findings. They review main issues and steps that have been taken to solve this issues.

Within the project students will look at data relating the topic and conduct primary analysis. Students will list best practices and suggest future directions.


Other areas include the use of healthcare records; how are doctors and healthcare providers viewing and using EMR; how can better integration of EMR be achieved; a review of EMR technologies.


Approaches in E health and reviews about its use is another area of research.

Learners

Learners
Post-graduate
Intermediate levels
60 learners
Project
28 hours per learner
Educators assign learners to projects
Teams of 10
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Student will identify the main problems in the suggested area of the Canadian healthcare system. They will use both data, cases and reviews to identify those problems. Then they review best practices that have been used to solve those problems and point to new solutions. Related to the healthcare system, some of the deliverables are: literature review, summary of main issues, best practices, primary analysis of data, findings.


Regarding E health and e records, additional deliverables will be a screening of software and reviewing features.

Project timeline
  • November 5, 2024
    Experience start
  • November 5, 2024
    Presentation
  • November 11, 2024
    Report Submission
  • November 15, 2024
    Collect data and gather main references.
  • November 17, 2024
    Starting the project and stating main objectives
  • November 21, 2024
    Form introduction and main report categories
  • December 19, 2024
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

Group project

Time of project: 1 month


Additional company criteria

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

Name an exceptional outcome from this project

What are the difficulties you faced when implementing the project?