Health Care Analytics

2 credits · Owen Graduate School of Management

Health care organizations are gathering and capturing data on every aspect of patient care. Although this offers a great opportunity to design evidence-based business and clinical processes, the volume of data as well as the inherent variability necessitates applying advanced analytical skills. In this course students learn how to use advanced analytical skills to help influence operational and strategic decision making in health care delivery organizations. Specifically, student learning will focus on the use of operations research, statistical and operations management concepts in providing a contextual basis for proposing a solution approach; novel application of standard methodological techniques of operations research and statistics for developing the solution; use of decision analytic and decision making under uncertainty framework for implementing and monitoring the outcomes. The emphasis in this course will be on learning by doing. Students will conceptualize implementable solutions to problems using different real datasets and learn to apply different analytical solution methodologies. The final project will involve students using real-time data to propose solutions to a problem currently facing a healthcare organization. [2]