NURS 8875 Data Science for Medicine and Healthcare
The course introduces the major concepts of data science to professionals in healthcare by providing lectures and hands-on experiments. Students will gain foundational skills for using data-driven models, data science concepts, and health data to support their questions related to biomedical research and clinical outcomes. The course will explore the concepts of clinical intelligence, clinical decision support systems, and the role of analytics in measuring health system performance and health outcomes. Key topics include data modeling, analysis of longitudinal clinical trajectories, data visualization, measuring health system performance, existing quality/performance measurement frameworks, and the IT infrastructure needed to leverage analytics for health improvement. This is a project-based, repetition-to-mastery model for learning data science techniques.