Health Information Literacy for Data Analytics Specialization on Coursera

Online

Created by UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education and hosted on the Coursera platform, this is an online course consisting of pre-recorded video lectures, auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments and community discussion forums. This specialization program is self-paced and designed to help you master a specific career skill in as little as 4-6 months.

This Specialization is intended for data and technology professionals with no previous health care experience who are seeking for an industry change to work with healthcare data. Through four courses, you will identify the types, sources, and challenges of healthcare data along with methods for selecting and preparing data for analysis. You will examine the range of healthcare data sources and compare terminology, including administrative, clinical, insurance claims, patient-reported and external data. You will complete a series of hands-on assignments to model data and to evaluate questions of efficiency and effectiveness in healthcare. This Specialization will prepare you to be able to transform raw healthcare data into actionable information.

Instruction Method
Online class

Section Notes

Enrollments are accepted on a continuous basis. Complete the course at your own pace. This Specialization consists of four courses on the Coursera platform:

  • Healthcare Data Literacy
  • Healthcare Data Models
  • Healthcare Data Quality and Governance
  • Analytical Solutions to Common Healthcare Problems

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