This Specialization is intended for health professionals, administrators, health IT staff, vendors, startups, and patients who need or want to participate in the health IT/informatics process. Throughout the five courses of this Specialization, you will learn about the social and technical context of health informatics problems, how to successfully implement health informatics interventions, how to design a health informatics solution for decision support, and how to answer a health informatics problem through data retrieval and analysis.
Health Informatics Specialization
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Health Informatics Specialization
Learn To Tackle Health IT & Big Data the Right Way. Become a leader in the dynamic and rapidly growing field of health informatics.
Instructors: Sam Meiselman
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Beginner level
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1 month at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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Share your expertise with employers
What you'll learn
Articulate a coherent problem definition of, and a plan for addressing, a health informatics problem.
Answer a health informatics problem through data retrieval and analysis.
Design a health informatics solution for decision support.
Create a change management and deployment plan for a health informatics intervention.
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Skills you'll gain
- IT Management
- Health Technology
- Workflow Management
- Decision Support Systems
- Clinical Data Management
- Health Information Management and Medical Records
- Vendor Management
- Health Systems
- Clinical Leadership
- Organizational Change
- Process Improvement
- Health Care
- Health Information Management
- Solution Design
- Health Policy
- Health Care Administration
- Healthcare Industry Knowledge
- Health Informatics
- Data Science
- Change Management
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Specialization - 5 course series
What you'll learn
Articulate a coherent problem definition of, and a plan for addressing, a healthcare informatics problem.
Create an Informatics Stack analysis of an informatics problem.
Describe eleven socio-technical aspects of a health informatics problem or solution.
Skills you'll gain
Category: Health Informatics
Category: Health Policy
Category: Interoperability
Category: System Requirements
Category: Information Privacy
Category: Electronic Medical Record
Category: Health Care Procedure and Regulation
Category: Healthcare Industry Knowledge
Category: Health Technology
Category: Emerging Technologies
Category: Health Information Management
Category: Medical Imaging
Category: Technology Strategies
Category: Data Literacy
Category: Information Technology
Category: Health Care
What you'll learn
Describe essential steps in the process of successfully leading change in health IT organizations.
Recognize the importance of multidisciplinary and interprofessional teamwork in health informatics.
Utilize several common project management and strategic planning tools used by health informaticists.
Apply best practices for successful change management in health informatics.
Skills you'll gain
Category: Change Management
Category: Organizational Change
Category: Project Management
Category: Procurement
Category: Workflow Management
Category: Decision Support Systems
Category: IT Management
Category: Process Improvement
Category: Health Systems
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Health Care Administration
Category: Governance
Category: Organizational Development
Category: Business Transformation
Category: Clinical Leadership
Category: Return On Investment
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Vendor Management
Category: Health Care
Category: Health Informatics
What you'll learn
Identify opportunities for healthcare informatics interventions.
Apply a structured framework for articulating the components of decision support.
Design knowledge acquisition for decision support.
Outline a health informatics solution for decision support
Skills you'll gain
Category: Decision Support Systems
Category: Health Informatics
Category: Health Technology
Category: Usability Testing
Category: Data Collection
Category: User Centered Design
Category: Health Information Management
Category: Requirements Elicitation
Category: Electronic Medical Record
Category: Clinical Data Management
Category: Health Care
Category: Solution Design
What you'll learn
Articulate different forms of clinical and population level data.
Describe the data required to answer a healthcare information problem.
Distinguish between data questions and data queries when dealing with a healthcare information problem.
Skills you'll gain
Category: Electronic Medical Record
Category: Data Quality
Category: Health Informatics
Category: Query Languages
Category: Big Data
Category: Clinical Data Management
Category: Health Care
Category: Data Integration
Category: Data Science
Category: Interoperability
Category: Databases
Category: Healthcare Industry Knowledge
Category: Health Information Management
Category: Data Mining
Category: Data Analysis
What you'll learn
Skills you'll gain
Category: Systems Analysis
Category: Health Technology
Category: Public Health
Category: User Centered Design
Category: Health Care
Category: Health Information Management and Medical Records
Category: Health Care Administration
Category: Requirements Analysis
Category: Health Informatics
Category: Technical Communication
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