Johns Hopkins University
Health Informatics Specialization

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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

(767 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

4 weeks to complete
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

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 Informatics
Category: System Requirements
Category: Data Sharing
Category: Health Policy
Category: Interoperability
Category: Electronic Medical Record
Category: Data Literacy
Category: Health Technology
Category: Health Care Procedure and Regulation
Category: Emerging Technologies
Category: Medical Imaging
Category: Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA) Compliance
Category: Information Technology
Category: Informatics
Category: Health Care
Category: Health Information Management
Category: Healthcare Industry Knowledge
Category: Health Systems
Category: Technology Strategies
Category: Health Information Management and Medical Records

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: Decision Support Systems
Category: System Implementation
Category: Change Control
Category: Health Informatics
Category: IT Management
Category: Health Care
Category: Health Technology
Category: Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Health Care Administration
Category: Clinical Informatics
Category: Electronic Medical Record

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: Decision Support Systems
Category: Health Informatics
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Health Care
Category: User Centered Design
Category: Requirements Elicitation
Category: Clinical Informatics
Category: Electronic Medical Record
Category: Usability Testing
Category: Solution Design
Category: Data Capture
Category: Health Information Management
Category: Health Technology

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: Data Quality
Category: Query Languages
Category: Health Informatics
Category: Big Data
Category: Medical Records
Category: Health Care
Category: Electronic Medical Record System
Category: Data Science
Category: Databases
Category: Clinical Informatics
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Interoperability
Category: Health Information Management

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Health Care Administration
Category: Health Informatics
Category: Business Systems Analysis
Category: Data Access
Category: Technical Communication
Category: Health Care
Category: Requirements Analysis
Category: Informatics
Category: Systems Analysis

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Instructors

Sam Meiselman
Johns Hopkins University
1 Course22,147 learners
Ashwini S. Davison, M.D.
Johns Hopkins University
5 Courses50,137 learners

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