Course Details

This course explores the use of data analytics, mining, visualization, tools to support data-driven decisions in healthcare organizations. Students develop a comprehensive view of data, use data to drive outcomes and efficiencies in healthcare. Commonly used methods/challenges in data analytics discussed. Multiple sources are explored including patient-generated data, electronic health records, administrative databases.

Outcomes: Students will discuss the role of data analytics in health care organizations, demonstrate conceptual and practical knowledge, share structuring of health and healthcare data, retrieve data, perform descriptive analyses on healthcare datasets.