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Explore health challenges on Ewance to apply academic learning to real-world briefs. Cover topics across clinical operations, public health, life sciences, and health-tech to build a credential-backed portfolio.
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Rescue a Stalling Scrum Team at a Series-B HealthTech
Review 8 hours of recorded ceremonies and 3 sprints of Jira data (story sizing, carry-over rate, cycle time per story, blocker tags). Diagnose the top 3 root causes (likely cand…
- Agile / Scrum Ceremonies
- Agile Metrics
- Retrospectives
Agile Methods and Practices - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Design an Electronic Health Record Data-Quality Audit
Stand up a Python (pandas + DuckDB) audit notebook ingesting the 14M-record extract. Define and run quality checks across four dimensions: completeness (required-field missingne…
- Health Informatics
- Data Quality
- Snomed Ct
Computational Biology and Health Informatics - CodeIntermediateNew
Detect Atrial Fibrillation from Wearable Heart-Rate Data
Build a Python pipeline that ingests raw PPG + accelerometer at 100Hz, applies motion-artifact rejection using the accelerometer channel, detects beats, computes RR-interval irr…
- Health Sensing
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Signals
Computational Biology and Health Informatics - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Threat-Model a Patient-Intake Web App for a Telemedicine Startup
Receive the architecture diagram (Next.js front-end, Node.js API, PostgreSQL, S3 for ID-photo uploads, Clerk for auth), the data-flow description for patient intake, and the SOC…
- Threat Modeling
- STRIDE
- Risk Assessment
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- DesignFoundationalNew
Model and Normalize a Vet-Clinic SaaS Schema
Read the current schema dump (PostgreSQL, around 28 tables, heavily denormalized) and the team's 8 most common reporting queries. Produce an entity-relationship diagram from the…
- Data Modeling
- Normalization
- SQL
Introduction to Database Systems - CodeIntermediateNew
Design an Anti-Corruption Layer for a Legacy Hospital EHR
Map the legacy EHR's HL7 v2 message schema (ADT, ORM, ORU segments) to the new platform's domain (Patient, Encounter, Order, Result). Identify the 6-10 anti-patterns in the lega…
- Anti Corruption Layer
- Hl7 Integration
- Domain Modeling
Domain-Driven Design - CodeSeniorNew
Implement a Bootloader with Secure OTA for a Medical Wearable
Implement using MCUboot as the secondary-image bootloader. Set up an offline signing pipeline (Ed25519 keys, HSM-backed for production). Implement the OTA client: BLE file trans…
- Mcuboot
- Secure Bootloader
- Firmware Signing
Embedded Systems Engineering - DesignIntermediateNew
Migrate a RabbitMQ Topology to Kafka for a Healthcare SaaS
Analyze the current RabbitMQ topology + 30 days of message volume data. Map each queue to a Kafka topic with the right partition key (likely patient_id, encounter_id, or clinic_…
- Kafka Event Streaming
- Rabbitmq
- Message Broker Migration
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Build a Risk Register for a Cross-Border Healthcare Provider
Run 8 structured interviews (CISO, IT director, clinical-systems lead, DPO, 4 clinic managers) to surface the top risk candidates. Map each risk against NIST SP 800-30 (threat s…
- Risk Management
- NIST Sp 800 30
- Security Governance
Information Security Management and Governance - CodeBeginnerNew
Churn-Prediction Model for a B2B Vertical SaaS
Use 18 months of anonymized data (provided) covering: usage events, login frequency, support tickets, NPS responses, billing health, feature adoption, practice firmographics. De…
- Supervised Learning
- Python Or Javascript
- Ml Applications
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - CodeIntermediateNew
Edge-Inference Pipeline for a Smart-Factory Vibration Monitor
Architect a pipeline that runs on an ESP32-S3 + STM32 combo (provided): (1) sample 3-axis accelerometer at 3.2 kHz, (2) compute windowed FFT features on-device every 1s, (3) run…
- Edge Computing
- Embedded Systems
- Sensors And Actuators
Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Application Portfolio Rationalization at a Global Bank
Receive a CMDB extract of 412 applications with cost, technology stack, business owner, and usage telemetry (anonymized). Score each application on business value (revenue contr…
- Portfolio Rationalization
- It Governance
- Cost Analysis
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- CodeSeniorNew
AR Surgical-Planning Overlay for Orthopedic Implants
Receive 5 synthetic DICOM hip-anatomy datasets (no patient data; generated from public anatomical atlases) and CAD models for 3 implant SKUs. Build a HoloLens 2 prototype that l…
- Ar Development
- Mixed Reality Applications
- 3d Interaction
Virtual and Mixed Reality - CodeIntermediateNew
Native iOS HealthKit Integration for a Cardiac Rehab Startup
Build a SwiftUI app targeting iOS 17+ that requests HealthKit read scopes (heart rate, HRV, resting HR, workouts), reads the last 7 days on launch and subscribes to live updates…
- Mobile Development
- Ios Swift
- Healthkit
Mobile Application Development - ResearchIntermediateNew
Computational Newsroom: Analyze Crisis Information Flow on Social Platforms
Receive an anonymized 72-hour dataset of posts, reposts, quotes, and replies (10M events) tagged to the public-health alert. Build a temporal repost-and-reply network at minute …
- Computational Journalism
- Temporal Networks
- Network Science
Network Science and Computational Social Science - CodeBeginnerNew
Structured Logging Migration for a Healthcare SaaS Monolith
Receive the current Lograge-flavored Rails logger and 3 sample log files (anonymized PHI). Design: a structured-log JSON schema (request_id, user_id, route, status, duration_ms,…
- Structured Logging
- Loki
- Phi Redaction
Software Observability - CodeIntermediateNew
Apply Differential Privacy to a HealthTech Analytics Dashboard
Wrap the existing analytics layer with OpenDP (or Google's differential-privacy library). Implement epsilon-delta accounting: per-query Laplace noise for counts and sums, Gaussi…
- Differential Privacy
- Privacy Budget
- Python Or Javascript
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies - AnalysisBeginnerNew
GDPR Article 25 Privacy-By-Design Review for a HealthTech API
Review the API specification (OpenAPI 3, provided, 42 endpoints). For each endpoint: identify data categories handled (special-category health data, identifiers, traffic data), …
- GDPR
- Privacy By Design
- REST API Design
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies - AnalysisIntermediateNew
ODE Integrator Benchmark for a Pharma PK/PD Pipeline
Use SciPy's solve_ivp + SUNDIALS (via scikit-sundae or diffeqpy) to benchmark: RK45 (baseline), LSODA, BDF (CVODE), Radau, and Rosenbrock. Run on three model classes (insulin-gl…
- Numerical Odes
- Stiff Integrators
- Scientific Python
Scientific Computing and Numerical Methods - PresentationBeginnerNew
Run an Incident-Response Tabletop for a Healthtech On-Call Team
Design 3 tabletop scenarios with realistic timeline injects (every 5-10 minutes, new info arrives). Run the tabletop hybrid (in-person + remote) with the 8 on-call engineers + 2…
- Incident Response
- Tabletop Exercises
- Incident Command
Site Reliability Engineering - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Architecture Evaluation via ATAM for a Healthcare Platform
Run a 2-phase ATAM (Phase 1: present architecture + elicit quality-attribute goals + analyze approaches; Phase 2: broader stakeholder validation). Capture: business drivers, qua…
- Atam
- Architecture Evaluation
- Quality Attributes
Software Architecture - CodeIntermediateNew
Strangler-Fig Modernization of a Healthcare Reporting Service
Audit the report categories (around 14) and pick operating-theater utilization for the pilot extraction (high volume, moderate complexity, low regulatory blast-radius). Design t…
- Strangler Fig
- Legacy Systems
- Feature Flags
Software Evolution and Maintenance - DesignIntermediateNew
Build a Quality Metrics Program for a Medical-Device Software Team
Read the team's QMS (Quality Management System) documents and the IEC 62304 software lifecycle requirements. Design a metric catalog of 12-15 metrics covering process (review-co…
- Quality Metrics
- Iec 62304
- Process Improvement
Software Quality and Process Improvement - DesignIntermediateNew
Threat Model a HealthTech Patient-Portal Web App
Read the 25-page redesign architecture document (auth via Clerk, Next.js front-end, FastAPI backend, Postgres, S3 for documents, webhook integration with EMRs). Build data-flow …
- Threat Modeling
- STRIDE
- Secure Design
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