Data Analytics in Healthcare Administration

Catalog description

This course includes the concepts and practices associated with data analytics in various healthcare domains and applying the results of the analytics to make sound financial, operational, and strategic decisions. Students will be exposed to advanced data management and analytical techniques commonly employed in healthcare organizations of all sizes and structures, such as data acquisition and storage, machine learning, statistics, text analytics and natural language processing. In addition, the synergies associated with analyzing previously untapped data coupled with existing enterprise data will be explored in terms of making sound business decisions. Furthermore, this course will evaluate common sources of big data in healthcare, the big data life cycle, big data architecture framework, issues pertaining to the security and privacy of big data in healthcare.