Fundamentals of Data Science in Healthcare
Completed by Ian Besse
April 19, 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: Medical Records
- Category: Data Processing
- Category: Health Care
- Category: Medical Coding
- Category: Electronic Medical Record
- Category: Medical Privacy
- Category: ICD Coding (ICD-9/ICD-10)
- Category: Data Integration
- Category: Clinical Data Management
- Category: Health Information Management
- Category: Data Cleansing
- Category: Feature Engineering
