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Actionable Healthcare Data Analytics

Code: DASC505

Credits: 15

Semester: Semester 2

This module aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills required to transform health data into actionable information, which can be used to enhance healthcare services, policies, and outcomes. By integrating data science and informatics engineering, the module will focus on building technical and human systems that support research and business intelligence for health systems. It will cover the core elements of Learning Health Systems and the principles involved in developing and evaluating an informatics intervention through lectures, guest speakers, data labs, and workgroup discussions. This module will provide students with the informatics knowledge and skills to turn health data into information that can be actioned in health systems, producing improved care, better data, and better policies – a so-called Learning Health System. It will combine data science and informatics engineering approaches to building technical and human systems that underpin research and business intelligence for health systems. The students will learn about and assessed on the core elements of Learning Health Systems and the principles of developing and evaluating an informatics intervention. Learning will be assessed through an oral presentation where students communicate actionable findings based on a close-to-reality synthetic dataset and a written analysis report on six-week collaborative Data Lab exercise.