Capstone Project

The capstone project is the culminating project in the University of Washington Master of Health Informatics & Information Management program. It gives you the opportunity to apply your technical and management skills and industry knowledge to a real-life health informatics and health information management problem at a health care organization or related organization in the community.

Here are some examples of past capstone projects: 

• Ambulatory Staffing Model Improvement Analysis
• Analysis and Mapping of International Vaccine Codes
• Assuring Timely Clinical Data Abstraction Using Continuous Process Improvement Methods
• Electronic Case Investigation of COVID Cases for Multiple Skilled Nursing Facilities
• Electronic Medication Administration Record System Implementation Project
• Evaluation of Applicable Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) Compliance Controls for a Multi-Health Care Organization
• Guidelines and Procedures for the usage of Bulk FHIR
• Implementation of Pyxis^®ES for UW Medicine
• Improving Search Quality of Nursing Procedures Located Within a Policy and Procedure Intranet Library
• Noninvasive Biometric Monitoring for the Prevention of COVID-19 Transmission and Deaths in Nursing Homes, Assisted Living and Long-Term Acute Care Facilities
• Patient Matching Test Case Development for Immunization Information System (IIS) Analysis Tool
• The Children’s Long-Term Inpatient Program (CLIP) Dashboard
• Washington State Department of Health REDCap Program Evaluation
• Washington State Department of Health Tracking Within the Epic EHR