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
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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(771 reviews)
Beginner level
Recommended experience
1 month at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Earn a career credential
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
- Databases
- Informatics
- Health Information Management
- Health Systems
- Solution Design
- Change Control
- Healthcare Industry Knowledge
- Health Information Management and Medical Records
- Usability Testing
- Data Science
- Decision Support Systems
- Health Care Administration
- Clinical Informatics
- Health Informatics
- Health Technology
- IT Management
- Health Policy
- Health Care
- Medical Records
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Taught in English
26 practice exercises
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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
Health Informatics, Data Sharing, System Requirements, Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA) Compliance, Interoperability, Data Literacy, Health Policy, Medical Imaging, Health Care, Technology Strategies, Health Technology, Electronic Medical Record, Health Care Procedure and Regulation, Health Information Management, Informatics, Healthcare Industry Knowledge, Information Technology, Emerging Technologies, Health Information Management and Medical Records, and Health Systems
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
Change Control, System Implementation, Decision Support Systems, Health Informatics, Clinical Informatics, Health Care Administration, Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), Health Technology, Electronic Medical Record, Strategic Leadership, IT Management, and Health Care
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
Decision Support Systems, Health Informatics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), Health Information Management, User Centered Design, Health Care, Data Capture, Electronic Medical Record, Requirements Elicitation, Health Technology, Usability Testing, Clinical Informatics, and 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
Data Quality, Health Informatics, Big Data, Databases, Clinical Informatics, Medical Records, Data Analysis, Health Care, Query Languages, Electronic Medical Record System, Data Science, Health Information Management, and Interoperability
What you'll learn
Skills you'll gain
Business Systems Analysis, Health Informatics, Health Care Administration, Data Access, Informatics, Health Care, Requirements Analysis, Systems Analysis, and Technical Communication
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