Theses and Internships

The MEDAN competence center offers a number of interesting topics to be investigated in a thesis or internship. This page provides an overview:

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Current and Past Theses

Michael Dejori: Clinical data warehousing with QlikView: a case study, 2010. The aim of this thesis is develop a QlikView template which allows to automatically generate QlikView business intelligence applications from an underlying multi-dimensional data model such as a star schema. As a concrete case study the data warehouse for the analysis of cancer therapy data at the Day Hospital Meran has been used.
Andreas Heinisch: Building a medical data warehouse for cancer therapies, 2009. The aim of this thesis is to develop a small prototype of a clinical data warehouse for the analysis of the cancer therapy data. The system has been developed and tested in the Department of Hematology at the Hospital Meran.
Patrick Lamber: An architecture for mobile data access in a day hospital, 2008/2009. The aim of this MSc-thesis is to develop an architecture for a mobile environment, which provide to the involved staff to get immediate data access via mobile devices.
Andrea Moskwita: Development of a methodology for DRG Cost Analysis — A Case Study at the Hospital of Meran, 2007/2008. The aim of this thesis is to develop a data mart to support the analysis of the effective costs of the Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) for the General Surgery Department at the hospital of Meran.

Multi-dimensional modeling of time-varying information: Almost all data in a medical context are time-varying. However, modeling and representing time-varying data in a data warehouse is challenging, in particular if dimensional data change. The aim of this thesis project is to analyse different types of temporal data in a clinical context and to develop methods to model and represent such data in a data warehouse.