• Business intelligence: assimilation and outcome measures for the health sector 

  Loewen, Elizabeth (Liz) (2017-12-18)

  Increased adoption of health information systems in clinical practice has set a foundation for use of this data for Business Intelligence (BI). BI is the use of specialized tools to collect, analyze, and present organizational ...
• Extending dimensional modeling through the abstraction of data relationships and development of the semantic data warehouse 

  Hart, Robert (2017-12-04)

  The Kimball methodology, often referred to as dimensional modelling, is well established in data warehousing and business intelligence as a highly successful means for turning data into information. Yet weaknesses exist ...
• Capturing culturally safe nursing care 

  Lewis, Adrienne (2017-08-28)

  ABSTRACT This thesis represents a two phase, qualitative study using both Expert Review Panel and Delphi Panel research methods. The two research questions guiding this study were: 1) Phase I: What does culturally ...
• Identification & visualization of patient information elements to support chronic iIlness care: a scoping review and pilot study 

  Kinch, Vanessa (2017-08-18)

  Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to determine what is known from the literature about the use of Clinical Information Systems (CIS’s) to support the information needs of individual health care providers (HCP), in ...
• Applications of telehealth in the practice, upgrading of knowledge, and communication of physicians with their colleagues and patients in Canada 

  Vahedi, Irandokht (2017-05-01)

  Applications of Telehealth in the practice, upgrading of knowledge, and communication of physicians with their colleagues and patients in Canada was explored in this study. The research used exploratory-grounded theory to ...
• Patient outcomes at St. Boniface Hospital in Manitoba: a second user satisfaction assessment of the C-HOBIC assessment tool 

  Hunt, Al (2017-04-24)

  Objective: The researcher replicated 12 questions from a previous user satisfaction study for the C-HOBIC assessment tool at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg Manitoba. The research questions were: (a) what is user ...
• Finding common ground: the road to electronic interprofessional documentation 

  McDonald, Kristie (2017-04-21)

  This thesis portrays a research study undertaken to explore the unknown concept of electronic interprofessional documentation. Academic literature largely centers on multidisciplinary electronic documentation yet clinicians ...
• Health information needs for initial assessments of children-in-care 

  Thompson, Cori Denise (2017-04-13)

  Children and youth in state or statutory care (children-in-care) are at a higher risk of not having their health needs met than the general pediatric population. A literature review found a paucity of evidence on the health ...
• Towards a big data analytics platform with Hadoop/MapReduce framework using simulated patient data of a hospital system 

  Chrimes, Dillon (2016-11-28)

  Background: Big data analytics (BDA) is important to reduce healthcare costs. However, there are many challenges. The study objective was high performance establishment of interactive BDA platform of hospital system. Methods: ...
• Impact of a mental health training program for general practitioners on practice behaviour 

  Lupton, Sarah (2016-11-24)

  Background: Accrual of continuing medical education credits is part of licensure in family medicine but opinions are mixed as to whether the training has an impact on clinical practice. Literature does suggest that practice ...
• The impact of computerized provider order entry on nursing practice 

  Vito, Rosabella (2016-08-15)

  The Institute of Medicine reported seven thousand deaths annually due to medication errors. It is estimated that two out of one hundred admissions experience a preventable adverse medication event resulting in an average ...
• Towards a framework for telenurses’ decision making: the decision ladder 

  Tuden, Danica S. (2016-05-26)

  Telenursing is a highly specialized area of nursing practice that has evolved in response to the advent of new technologies within the delivery of health care. Telenursing has been defined as “the use of communications and ...
• Geographic information system usability and decision support for rural health policy 

  Bond, Jason (2016-05-02)

  With the rising cost of health care, the debate about where each dollar is spent is putting increasing pressure on decision makers. Consequently, one of the biggest challenges of providing health care to rural populations, ...
• What is an appropriate electronic referral for psychiatry? 

  Prior, Scott (2016-05-02)

  Medical referrals are requests, typically from generalist to specialist physician, to see a patient in order to offer an opinion or further care and increasingly are conducted through information technology as electronic ...
• Registered nurse practice and information flow in long-term care nursing homes 

  Wei, Quan (2016-05-02)

  Little is known regarding registered nurse (RN) information management practice in long-term care (LTC) settings. This study identifies LTC RNs’ information management practice and needs, which are important for designing ...
• Risk assessment of technology-induced errors in health care 

  Chio, Tien-Sung (David) (2016-05-02)

  This study demonstrates that hybrid methods can be used for measuring the risk severity of technology-induced errors (TIE) that result from use of health information technology (HIT). The objectives of this research study ...
• Determining the Challenges and Requirements of Health Information Technology Service Management 

  Payne, Paul (2015-12-23)

  Information Technology (IT) systems have now become an important component of the delivery of healthcare services in Canada. Appropriately supporting healthcare technologies is critical to ensuring successful management ...
• Applying Qualitative System Dynamics to Enhance Performance Measurement for a Sustainable Health System in British Columbia 

  Yang, Qi William (2015-08-26)

  The current approach to performance measurement in British Columbia is to select and match performance measures with strategic goals and objectives so that health administrators and decision makers can evaluate the performance ...
• The Impact of Stroke Assessment on Patient Outcomes Following an Initial Transient Neurological Event (TNE) 

  Morrison, Jaclyn (2015-07-30)

  Context: As one of the major causes of death and disability in Canada, research into the treatment and prevention of acute cerebrovascular syndrome (ACVS) remains a priority for clinicians, researchers and the general ...
• Evaluation of Health Data Warehousing: Development of a Framework and Assessment of Current Practices 

  Leenaerts, Marianne (2015-04-09)

  If knowledge has been gathered by the practitioners’ community in the area of health data warehousing evaluation, it is mostly relying on anecdotal evidence instead of academic research. Isolated dimensions have received ...

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