HLTH 3400 - Healthcare Data Management and Analytics

This course will provide an introduction to basic data-driven research methods and the process of data requirements identification and analysis in the in the context of the healthcare field. As pay-for-performance and bundled payments reimbursement business models drive the industry to quality improvement, analytics that drive decision-making, and those necessary to formulate research hypotheses will become the purview of healthcare administrators. The focus will be on the analytics discovery and mining processes and the presentation and interpretation of results. The course will provide an overview of how applied computational science is currently informing evidence-based personalized medicine. Safe and secure data intake, storage and management, along with standard types of data use agreements, will be covered. The connections between data management, cybersecurity and mining for analytics for research and administration will be covered.

Hours:
3