Data Literacy and Analytics in Healthcare

1 Unit · Graduate

Students will learn about data literacy, unique aspects of working with healthcare data, relational databases, healthcare data standards, and the basics of utilizing SQL for data and analytics. Students will leave this course with a strong understanding of how to approach working with healthcare data, how the healthcare system shapes data, terminologies (i.e., RxNorm, SNOMED) and exchange standards (i.e. SMART on FHIR), relational databases, and how to retrieve, analyze, and aggregate relational data for analytics purposes using SQL.