Full course description
This course will give you an overview of informatics and its applications in numerous health-related professions. Topics covered in the on-demand modules will provide you with a high-level understanding of data systems and usage.
Modules that will be covered:
- What is Health Data – Introduces the concepts of health data including where data is entered, how it is collected, and where data flows.
- Introduction to Health Data Standards – Provides an understanding of how health data is organized including terminologies and data standards.
- Introduction to Data Governance – Reviews the guidance around health data privacy, security and patient consent grounded in the ethics of data sharing.
- Ways to Use Health Data – Introduces the Data Information Knowledge and Wisdom (DIKW) Pyramid to help explore ways health data can be used including population health, quality improvement or value-based reimbursement.
- Health Data Representation – Shares examples and exemplars of health data visualization along with basic concepts in human-centered design to explore the best practices in data visualization. Representation of data with considerations to health equity and vulnerable populations will be introduced.
Each module comprises a 15–20-minute presentation followed by learning activity and assessment with course evaluation.
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Upon completion, learners will have the capacity to:
- Identify the health system infrastructure where enter, collected and flows
- Recognize the opportunities and challenges of the current health data infrastructure in healthcare
- Describe the importance and intent of health data standards
- Explore codes through a variety of data standards including ICD-10, PHI, USCDI, FHIR
- Examine the ethics of data sharing related to privacy, security and consent
- Understand how and when health data is used across the healthcare system
- Determine how health data should be utilized
- Convey important considerations when visualizing health data
- Compare and contrast health data visualizations