Qualitative Methods in Health Informatics and Digital Health

1.5 credits · Graduate

Provides in-depth knowledge of qualitative approaches employed in requirements gathering, design and the study of digital health technologies. Traditional (e.g. interviews, focus group studies, grounded theory, ethnographies) and emerging (e.g. participatory design, action research, affinity diagramming, process analysis) methods will be discussed in depth. Students will also have the opportunity to learn about qualitative coding, visualization of data and automated text analytics approaches.