This course teaches you the fundamentals of computational phenotyping, a biomedical informatics method for identifying patient populations. In this course you will learn how different clinical data types perform when trying to identify patients with a particular disease or trait. You will also learn how to program different data manipulations and combinations to increase the complexity and improve the performance of your algorithms. Finally, you will have a chance to put your skills to the test with a real-world practical application where you develop a computational phenotyping algorithm to identify patients who have hypertension. You will complete this work using a real clinical data set while using a free, online computational environment for data science hosted by our Industry Partner Google Cloud.
Identifying Patient Populations
This course is part of Clinical Data Science Specialization
Instructor: Laura K. Wiley, PhD
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Create a computational phenotyping algorithm
Assess algorithm performance in the context of analytic goal.
Create combinations of at least three data types using boolean logic
Explain the impact of individual data type performance on computational phenotyping.
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There are 5 modules in this course
Learn about computational phenotyping and how to use the technique to identify patient populations.
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5 videos10 readings2 assignments
Understand how different clinical data types can be used to identify patient populations. Begin developing a computational phenotyping algorithm to identify patients with type II diabetes.
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5 videos2 readings2 assignments
Learn how to manipulate individual data types and combine multiple data types in computational phenotyping algorithms. Develop a more sophisticated computational phenotyping algorithm to identify patients with type II diabetes.
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2 videos2 readings2 assignments
Understand how to select a single "best" computational phenotyping algorithm. Finalize and justify a phenotyping algorithm for type II diabetes.
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1 video1 reading1 assignment
Put your new skills to the test - develop an computational phenotyping algorithm to identify patients with hypertension.
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1 reading1 peer review
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Reviewed on May 12, 2019
This is a well-presented course. I highly recommend.
Reviewed on Apr 4, 2019
The instructor does a great job of providing hands-on teaching in addition to lecture. However, this course required a lot of knowledge of R, which wasn't provided in the introductory course.
Reviewed on Dec 12, 2019
Great overview of how to identify Patient Population and the in and out of what to look for when you are thinking about your potential research project will involve.
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Unfortunately at this time we can only allow students who have access to Google services (e.g., a gmail account) to complete the specialization. This is because we give students access to real clinical data and our privacy protections only allow data sharing through the Google BigQuery environment.
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