Fundamentals of Data Science in Healthcare
Completed by Nahir Ricarte
June 1, 2026
8 hours (approximately)
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What you will learn
Describe the characteristics, challenges, and analytical roles of major healthcare data sources, including EHRs, claims, and registries.
Explain essential healthcare data standards and their importance in interoperability and structured analytics.
Apply data preprocessing and quality assessment techniques, including handling missing data, temporal alignment, and feature engineering.
Implement privacy-preserving preparation steps that ensure HIPAA-aligned handling of healthcare datasets.
Skills you will gain
- Category: Health Care
- Category: Medical Records
- Category: Data Processing
- Category: Health Informatics
- Category: Data Preprocessing
- Category: Data Integration
- Category: Data Cleansing
- Category: Health Information Management
- Category: Data Validation
- Category: Medical Coding
- Category: Electronic Medical Record
- Category: Clinical Data Management
