ADVANCED HEALTH INFORMATICS

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to equip students with advanced skills in analyzing healthcare data using state-of-the-art frameworks, tools, and applications. Students will learn to effectively use medical and health data, interpret results from analyzing this data, and construct a cohesive story outlining their findings in a clinical environment. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to outline current trends in health informatics, summarize the legislative and ethical barriers present in the field, and recognize common standardizations used in health informatics. In addition, students will be able to apply state-of-the-art data analytics and visualization approaches to tackle health relevant problems, using real world data from the MIMIC IV dataset.