This experience connects industry professionals with Northeastern students specializing in health informatics. They are equipped to tackle clinical, technical, and business challenges in healthcare. Students are trained to leverage technology and information management to enhance healthcare delivery and outcomes. By participating in this program, companies can engage with students who are adept at data extraction, analysis, and implementation, while students gain practical experience and build professional networks that could lead to future collaborations.

Projects should focus on the planning phase. 90% of student project work is defining and researching a plan. Your desired deliverable may be present within the larger project plan.

A typical project plan

• Anticipated timeline - students will forecast and create a GANTT chart based on stated resources
• Budget - based on research and experience, students will reflect industry standards for costs accounting for vendors and future demands
• Quality management - students will identify key measurements and factors alongside methods to achieve improvement to ensure success
• Communication - documentation regarding initiation, planning, execution, performance, and closure of the project
• Risk management - students will identify project risks by assessing the probability, impact, root cause, and developing contingency plans
• Procurement - students will collect information on contractschedule, scope, quality, and cost performance for collection, indexing, and filing and catalog change documentation, payment, and inspection results
• Stakeholders - from identification to analysis and management, students will recognize that stakeholders set the stage for a project and its success and will document how to engage stakeholders early in the discovery process and beyond
• Change management - students will reinforce anticipatory change and define positive impact to stakeholders andprojects, assessing and addressing change