George Brown College Health Informatics Internship Program

George Brown College
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Thérèse Bernier
Program coordinator & Professor
(10)
5
Experience
12/14 project matches
Dates set by projects
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Startup, Large enterprise, Non profit, Small to medium enterprise, Social enterprise
It & computing, Hospital, health, wellness & medical
Categories
UI design UX design Public health Healthcare Project management
Skills
problem solving project planning business analytics critical thinking interface design
Student 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, product analyst, 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.

Students
Post-graduate
Any level
60 Students
Project
240 hours per Student
Educators assign Students to projects
Teams of 4
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 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.