HDI Interns will be a group of outstanding individuals drawn from a diverse range of disciplines who come together to work as a team on a real-world problem.
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2023 Interns develop low-cost solutions to equipment tracking and people navigation in hospital settings
Our five interns, Sophie, Ioana, Filis, Jiaqi and Amos spent 9 weeks this summer working on solutions aimed at improving equipment tracking and people navigation in hospitals. The internship began with Filis, an MSc student in medical anthropology, dedicating several...
2022 Interns work on improving patient flow in a hospital setting
Our six interns, Dhylan, Emma, Sreedda, Zoe, Elise and William, and two fellows, Noo and Fred, spent 8 weeks this summer working on solutions aimed at improving patient flow in hospitals. During the first few weeks they focused on one aspect of patient flow:...
2022 HDI Project
Capturing Bed Occupancy Data from Hospital Wards This project aims to solve a challenging and pervasive problem in the NHS. There are around 140,000 hospital beds in the UK – but on any given day we don’t have very accurate and timely figures of how many beds are...
2021 interns create TheatreCapture
Our 2021 interns built TheatreCapture, a cheap and simple method of collecting information from operating theatres. Our interns, Jacob, Laith, Louise, Alex, Jaskirat and Tom worked fantastically as a group for 8 weeks to create an innovative data collection...
Running an intern scheme in a global pandemic
A different year This year's intern scheme at Health Data Insight was intended to be different but we obviously didn't intend to run it in a global pandemic. COVID-19 meant changes to the planning and running of the internship, and here we reflect on how it worked...
