Health Analytics

3 units

This is the capstone course for the Health Management major in which students learn to apply rigorous statistical and analytical approaches to research questions in health services, including but not limited to questions relating to management, finance and economics, operations, and policy. Faculty will identify several available research project options and present these options in class. The goal is to capitalize on the strength of the university medical school and affiliated medical centers, in addition to capitalizing on existing relationships between Olin and various health care firms to identify student research projects. Students will also be encouraged to formulate their own research questions and to identify potential data sources they could use to address these questions, if they so desire. Students will work in teams of three or four using the approaches developed for the Practicum and Hatchery courses.