Health Data Acquisition, Analysis and Management
A required course in the Healthcare and Public Health Analytics Specialized Studies Program.
This course will provide students with an understanding of information generated through the research, delivery, and management of public and private healthcare services. Topics emphasize how leveraging this information can generate better healthcare outcomes while upholding privacy, regulatory, and ethical standards. Students will examine the challenges connecting disparate data sources for rigorous analysis using best practices and toolsets. The experience of working through these challenges with accurate data will provide a deeper understanding of our healthcare systems and insights into building confidence in the analysis that can lead to improved public health.
Specific topics will include an overview of the healthcare information landscape, how information is used in different healthcare settings, healthcare information standards (such as the ICD standard and its history), healthcare interoperability standards, which enable the sharing of critical healthcare information across providers and settings, ethical considerations in the use and sharing of healthcare information, governance of healthcare information, the architecture of modern healthcare systems, and the practice of obtaining, standardizing, and connecting various and disparate data sources.
