Health Technology, Data, and Analysis

Catalog description

Challenges and opportunities abound as healthcare has raced into the digital age. Emerging technology and vast pools of data create both significant challenges and industry changing opportunities. This course will provide you with background and context for exploiting these changes. The first part of the course tracks the evolution of information technology and electronic medical records. It explores the decisions you must make, and the tradeoffs associated with planning and using this new technology. It prepares you to deal with the future of Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, Block Chain products and Quantum Computing. The next is will introduce the principles and methods of data analytics, and pitfalls to avoid, as they apply to the healthcare context and social determinants of health. The final part dedicated to the principles and methods of epidemiologic investigations and biostatistics in the healthcare context.