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.

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(756 reviews)

Beginner level

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Flexible schedule
1 month at 10 hours a week
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers

Overview

  • 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: Interoperability
Category: Information Privacy
Category: System Requirements
Category: Health Policy
Category: Health Care
Category: Emerging Technologies
Category: Medical Records
Category: Information Technology
Category: Health Information Management
Category: Information Technology Architecture
Category: Requirements Analysis
Category: Information Management
Category: Health Technology
Category: Systems Analysis
Category: Electronic Medical Record
Category: Healthcare Industry Knowledge
Category: Technology Roadmaps

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: Change Management
Category: Organizational Change
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Workflow Management
Category: Project Management
Category: Process Improvement
Category: Health Care Administration
Category: Health Informatics
Category: Governance
Category: Stakeholder Engagement
Category: Vendor Management
Category: Business Leadership
Category: Risk Management
Category: Health Care

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: Health Care
Category: Clinical Data Management
Category: Electronic Medical Record
Category: Usability Testing
Category: Requirements Elicitation
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Data Science
Category: Health Information Management
Category: Data Mining
Category: Solution Design
Category: User Centered Design

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

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Health Informatics
Category: Health Care
Category: Health Information Management and Medical Records
Category: Health Technology
Category: Systems Analysis
Category: Data Access
Category: Technical Communication
Category: Solution Design

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Instructors

Sam Meiselman
Johns Hopkins University
1 Course21,808 learners
Ashwini S. Davison, M.D.
Johns Hopkins University
5 Courses48,581 learners
Hadi H. K. Kharrazi, MD, Ph.D
Johns Hopkins University
1 Course21,808 learners
Harold P. Lehmann, MD, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
3 Courses44,836 learners

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