Interns – Patientory

National Intern Day, which is the third Thursday in July, was started in 2017 and was created to recognize interns for all of the hard work that they do. In celebration of this day, this year, we’ve had the pleasure of having seven students from Georgia State University’s Clinical Informatics Department working with us as part of the Patientory internship program.

Internship Program

Our summer internship program this year ran for 6 weeks. Seven students were chosen to join us at the Atlanta Tech Village the 4th largest startup co-worker hub in the United States.

Partnership with Georgia State University

Our new partnership with Georgia State University Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing provides their students with clinical informatics experience to aid in preparing a workforce for advancing the future of healthcare delivery.

Health Informatics Graduates

Health informatics as an industry is still in its infancy. Healthcare providers were slow to adopt clinical information systems at the point of care. Only now, because federal requirements accelerated the implementation of electronic health records, is the industry starting to evolve. Now that all this health information is in electronic form, the ability to analyze this immense volume of data has created new opportunities to improve care. That’s why the federal government is predicting such huge growth in this area over the next decade. In fact, the major issue that the industry is now facing is the lack of individuals with training and experience to fill the many open positions.

There were seven interns along with their supervisors and other leaders in attendance. They are studying the field of health informatics, the design, and implementation of IT-related in health care at Georgia State University, the public research university in Atlanta, Georgia.

Thuy DoTran
Yemuda Killen
Tram Bui
Xueling Wang
Quynh Nguyen
Salman Simjee
Olivia Collins

Part of the internship program consisted of the interns giving short presentations about what they learned throughout the course of their internship, and how they will use their new skills in their future careers.

One of these interns, Salman Simjee, described our company culture as, “[The] team is very open and supportive. They were always present to listen to our questions and provided us with insights about the industry.”

“The company culture is nice and respectable as well as the people who work at the Atlanta Tech Village.“ Quynh Nguyen.

New Horizons

Interns learned more about how clinical informatics can improve the overall patient experience such as,

Technology APIs electronic medical records integrations (HL7/FHIR, etc)
KPIs (based on electronic data)/CHF disease states examples
Nursing informatics and Smart FHIR training recommendations
What is being offered by other patient centric healthcare IT as Analytics
Analytic visualizations for both mobile and enterprise

And a lot more!

Final Day

Most of the interns already knew what they wanted to pursue coming into the internship. Tram Bui says she pursued Clinical Informatics at Georgia State University to become a healthcare data analyst and the patientory internship program helped her to kick start her dreams.

On the final day of the program, all our interns shared feedback about how their internship helped them figure out what career path they want to take.

We expect that number to continue to increase, by next summer, 2020.

Seven Georgia State University students are going to be having quite the summer experience. They have been chosen to intern with Patientory for the Summer Clinical Informatics program at Atlanta Tech Village. The program started on June 7 and run until July 29.

The students are studying the field of health informatics, the design, and implementation of IT-related in health care. It can be considered a cross between health care, information science, and computer science. Those innovations can cover security, electronic delivery, and management of records. It is a fairly new field of study – it was only in 2009 that medical records were required to be maintained in electronic form. The GSU Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions took its first health informatics students in 2013. A graduate program was launched in 2016. Both programs are unique as being the only interdisciplinary program in the United States in the field of health informatics.

With the staff of Patientory as their guides, they will be working alongside the developers of blockchain technology as applied to health care. The Patientory system will educate them about various forms of cryptocurrency, a universally centered patient database, and a way to securely share information from it. All of those combined are used for the outcome of increasing security and making health care results more accurate. The blockchain system ensures that records cannot be changed without a trail and that any access can be controlled to those with the key.

The Atlanta Tech Village is the startup gathering place for Atlanta’s many technological businesses. Members are supported in a variety of tasks in the community with the goal of connecting those with ideas, those with talent, and the capital they need. It is one of the top five tech centers in the whole United States. Marketing and business and development teams from the Tech Village will be assisting the interns in their work and analysis.

Both of those combined are going to give the interns a first-class look in how to apply everything they’ve learned in the classroom to a real-life setting. The intersection of health care and computer management that Patientory puts to use every day is a prime example of how health informatics works in the real world.

Every Friday during the internship period they will be able to attend a conference detailing some basic ways to get a job in the industry and other ways of learning and dealing with the many problems that might come up in their future careers, from dealing with diversity in the workplace to managing stress from a job. Speakers will include the co-founder of the Atlanta Tech Village itself as well as the founders of two different start-ups.