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Online Start Up Company, Provides Services And A Platform For The Health Care Sector

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This term I worked for the online start-up company, Colleaga. Colleaga is a technology company that provides services and a platform for the health care sector. Colleaga provides services and technologies to different healthcare organizations and professionals in order to increase innovation and collaboration within healthcare systems internationally. One of the services that Colleaga provides is an opportunity for organizations to increase innovation. To provide and catalyse and mode for innovation within organizations, Colleaga partners with healthcare organizations to run challenges. The challenges are run one the online platform and allow employees in healthcare organizations to show their ideas to leaders to help solve the problems …show more content…

The classes involved delving into the complexities that exist in providing health care in all of its forms, to the masses of people in countries all over the world. During my co-op work term at Colleaga, I have had the opportunity to learn more about both healthcare systems and organizations. I have also gained knowledge in how these components of healthcare interact within themselves; and with the individuals who use the care. Through the content I have developed for the Colleaga website, I have gained more insight into the theories I have learned in my university courses and how the concepts apply to real people in the real world. The concept of health services provision is an example of the overlap and deepening of the knowledge from my academic studies, that has been expanded through my employment experience. Health services provision is how patients with illnesses or diseases are cared for in health systems and by whom. The division of labour based on location, patient and type of illness are examined. In the course, the different forms of healthcare were analyzed in both a historical context and in the modern era. In Canada, health care includes hospital care, long term care, and community health care; along with many other types of care. Due to all of the types of care, there are many different types and large numbers of care providers who care for patients. The concepts surrounding the dispersion of care in Canada, was discussed in the course but

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