BSAN 6400 Healthcare Analytics

3 semester hours

The initiation of ARRA by the US Federal government in 2009 has led to a significant impact in the Health Information Technology (HIT). One of the areas where the impact is distinctly visible is digitization of health records and its widespread adoption. Enterprise scale health information management software suites have led to organized capture, storage, and distribution of healthcare data in electronic form, making the healthcare vertical ripe and ready for analytic applications. The advances of modern data analytics, when combined with the HIT has already started demonstrating a potential of fundamentally changing the paradigm of disease diagnostics, medical decision making, and patient management. This introductory graduate level course is designed to provide an integrated perspective of healthcare information systems (EHR/PHR), data analytics, and the healthcare domain. Building on the concepts and vocabulary of these fields, students will carry out research and projects to develop analytics applications using data sets from the healthcare domain. This course will be suitable for students with healthcare domain knowledge, seeking training in data analytics and HIT as well as students with information technology and analytics knowledge seeking training in the healthcare domain.