Data Analytics for Health Care Managers

Catalog description

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the validity, reliability, and practical application of descriptive and inferential statistics in health care. You will learn how health care managers use data analytics to improve quality, patient outcomes, and organizational performance. The course emphasizes working with real-world health data to clean, summarize, visualize, and model complex datasets, and to interpret results for diverse stakeholders. You will critically evaluate published health research, translate evidence into actionable recommendations, and communicate findings. By the end of the course, you will be able to apply core analytical techniques and evidence-based reasoning to support strategic and operational decision-making in health care organizations.