Health Information Literacy for Data Analytics Specialization

Launch Your Data Science Career in Healthcare. Transfer your data analysis skills to the complex world of healthcare
This Specialization is intended for data and technology professionals with no previous healthcare experience who are seeking an industry change to work with healthcare data. Through four courses, you will identify the types, sources, and challenges of healthcare data along with methods for selecting and preparing data for analysis. You will examine the range of healthcare data sources and compare terminology, including administrative, clinical, insurance claims, patient-reported and external data. You will complete a series of hands-on assignments to model data and to evaluate questions of efficiency and effectiveness in healthcare. This Specialization will prepare you to be able to transform raw healthcare data into actionable information.

Applied Learning Project
Learners will examine various healthcare data sets to determine the various types of data, discover the many sources and contributors of data, analyze the quality and validity of the data and use healthcare data sets to make recommendations to improve patient care.