HPM 232 Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Outcomes Improvement

The digital revolution has influenced the way the healthcare industry collects data and makes decisions, and will do so going forward in light of the way the Affordable Care Act has incentivized the adoption of electronic health records (EHR). This course explores the intersection of health and computer technology: the “big data” fields of clinical informatics and public health informatics and ways to analyze these for outcomes data, quality improvement, and health services research.