Johns Hopkins University
Health Informatics Specialization
Johns Hopkins University

Health Informatics Specialization

Learn To Tackle Health IT & Big Data the Right Way. Become a leader in the dynamic and rapidly growing field of health informatics.

Sam Meiselman
Ashwini S. Davison, M.D.
Hadi H. K. Kharrazi, MD, Ph.D

Instructors: Sam Meiselman

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4.4

(702 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

1 month
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Articulate a coherent problem definition of, and a plan for addressing, a health informatics problem.

  • Answer a health informatics problem through data retrieval and analysis.

  • Design a health informatics solution for decision support.

  • Create a change management and deployment plan for a health informatics intervention.

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Specialization - 5 course series

The Social and Technical Context of Health Informatics

Course 19 hours4.3 (497 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Articulate a coherent problem definition of, and a plan for addressing, a healthcare informatics problem.

  • Create an Informatics Stack analysis of an informatics problem.

  • Describe eleven socio-technical aspects of a health informatics problem or solution.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Health Care Administration
Category: Health Information Management and Medical Records
Category: Systems Integration
Category: Interoperability
Category: Systems Analysis
Category: Systems Engineering
Category: Information Systems
Category: Information Technology
Category: Requirements Analysis
Category: Information Privacy
Category: Health Administration
Category: Healthcare Industry Knowledge
Category: Cybersecurity
Category: Health Systems
Category: Information Management
Category: Information Assurance
Category: IT Management
Category: Data Governance
Category: Management Information Systems
Category: Software Development

Leading Change in Health Informatics

Course 215 hours4.7 (288 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Describe essential steps in the process of successfully leading change in health IT organizations.

  • Recognize the importance of multidisciplinary and interprofessional teamwork in health informatics.

  • Utilize several common project management and strategic planning tools used by health informaticists.

  • Apply best practices for successful change management in health informatics.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Health Care Administration
Category: Health Information Management and Medical Records
Category: Medical Management
Category: Health Administration
Category: Clinical Leadership
Category: Organizational Leadership
Category: Organizational Change
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Strategic Planning
Category: Project Management Life Cycle
Category: Information Technology
Category: Organizational Development
Category: Project Implementation
Category: Process Management
Category: Business Transformation
Category: IT Management
Category: Workflow Management
Category: Project Management
Category: Change Management
Category: Healthcare Industry Knowledge

The Outcomes and Interventions of Health Informatics

Course 36 hours4.5 (95 ratings)

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

Skills you'll gain

Category: Health Care Administration
Category: Human Centered Design
Category: Design Thinking
Category: Decision Support Systems
Category: Clinical Research
Category: Business Analytics
Category: Clinical Trials
Category: Business Intelligence
Category: Clinical Data Management
Category: Health Information Management and Medical Records
Category: Knowledge Transfer
Category: Analytics
Category: Data Analysis

The Data Science of Health Informatics

Course 410 hours4.6 (207 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Articulate different forms of clinical and population level data.

  • Describe the data required to answer a healthcare information problem.

  • Distinguish between data questions and data queries when dealing with a healthcare information problem.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Clinical Research
Category: Health Care Administration
Category: Clinical Data Management
Category: Clinical Trials
Category: Health Information Management and Medical Records
Category: Data Quality
Category: Data Governance
Category: Electronic Medical Record
Category: Databases
Category: Medical Records
Category: Extract, Transform, Load
Category: Information Systems
Category: Systems Engineering
Category: Data Processing
Category: Big Data
Category: Information Management
Category: Medical Science and Research
Category: Data Engineering
Category: Interoperability
Category: Business Intelligence

Culminating Project in Health Informatics

Course 514 hours4.8 (58 ratings)

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Business Process Management
Category: Communication
Category: Management Information Systems
Category: Process Management
Category: Communication Planning
Category: Information Management
Category: Process Improvement and Optimization
Category: Process Design
Category: Health Information Management and Medical Records
Category: Health Care Administration
Category: IT Management
Category: Information Systems
Category: Communication Strategies
Category: Human Centered Design
Category: Needs Assessment
Category: Strategic Communication
Category: Design Thinking
Category: Data Management

Instructors

Sam Meiselman
Johns Hopkins University
1 Course20,216 learners
Ashwini S. Davison, M.D.
Johns Hopkins University
5 Courses42,635 learners

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