For clinical data science to be effective in healthcare—to achieve the outcomes desired—it must translate into decision support of some sort, either at the patient, clinician, or manager level. By the end of this course, students will be able to articulate the need for an intervention, to right size it, to choose the appropriate technology, to describe how knowledge should be obtained, and to design a monitoring plan.
The Outcomes and Interventions of Health Informatics
The Outcomes and Interventions of Health Informatics
This course is part of Health Informatics Specialization
Instructors: Harold P. Lehmann, MD, Ph.D.
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3 weeks at 2 hours a week
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What you'll learn
Identify opportunities for healthcare informatics interventions.
Apply a structured framework for articulating the components of decision support.
Design knowledge acquisition for decision support.
Outline a health informatics solution for decision support
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There are 4 modules in this course
In this module, you will be introduced to the course through a range of decision support interventions used in health care. We will examine the Five Rights of decision support and go on to discuss the basics for deciding whether to build an intervention and, having done so, how to evaluate it.
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5 videos1 assignment
In this module, we will focus on issues of design, both for decision support and as they apply more broadly across multiple environments.
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8 videos1 assignment
In this module, we return to decision support, focusing on rules-- the key structure in most decision support. We'll provide a key framework for making sure you have all the minimum components for ensuring a successful implementation. We'll also address issues of languages used by rules and how to keep rules consistent within and between institutions.
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7 videos1 assignment
In this module, we will go behind the scenes of decision support, examining where and how we get the knowledge that drives decision support --including data science-- for generating knowledge from data.
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9 videos1 assignment1 peer review
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Reviewed on Jan 4, 2021
This was a great course. It was indepth and very thorough for my beginner skillset. I have enjoyed Dr. Lehmann's courses a great deal.
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Reviewed on Jul 12, 2020
Wonderful content delivery and appropriate academic level for people new to informatics delivery.
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Reviewed on Oct 13, 2019
Learned that there are different ways to input and access information through a system. Also the types of thought processes on how to achieve the outcome.
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