For clinical data science to be effective in healthcare—to achieve the outcomes desired—it must translate into decision support of some sort, either at the patient, clinician, or manager level. By the end of this course, students will be able to articulate the need for an intervention, to right size it, to choose the appropriate technology, to describe how knowledge should be obtained, and to design a monitoring plan.
This course is part of the Health Informatics Specialization
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Health Informatics SpecializationJohns Hopkins UniversityAbout this Course
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Approx. 7 hours to complete
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What you will 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 will gain
Knowledge AcquisitionDecision TreeDecision-MakingDecision Support SystemHealth Informatics
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While there are no prerequisites, prior experience with, or knowledge of, health, healthcare, technology, and statistics are helpful.
Approx. 7 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: English
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Johns Hopkins University
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
1 hour to complete
Knowing Where to Intervene
In this module, you will be introduced to the course through a range of decision support interventions used in health care. We will examine the Five Rights of decision support and go on to discuss the basics for deciding whether to build an intervention and, having done so, how to evaluate it.
1 hour to complete
5 videos (Total 61 min)
5 videos
Should You?11m
Should You? II: HIMSS Framework13m
Does It Work?: Testing8m
Is It Used? Does It Accomplish Goals?7m
1 practice exercise
Module 1 Quiz
1 hour to complete
Defining Decision Support
In this module, we will focus on issues of design, both for decision support and as they apply more broadly across multiple environments.
1 hour to complete
8 videos (Total 47 min)
8 videos
Types of Clinical Decision Support7m
Design Phase9m
Define Phase7m
Ideate Phase2m
Prototype Phase2m
Test Phase3m
Deploy Phase9m
1 practice exercise
Module 2 Quiz30m
2 hours to complete
Using Transactional and Summative Data and Knowledge for Decision Support
In this module, we return to decision support, focusing on rules-- the key structure in most decision support. We'll provide a key framework for making sure you have all the minimum components for ensuring a successful implementation. We'll also address issues of languages used by rules and how to keep rules consistent within and between institutions.
2 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 84 min)
7 videos
What's in a Rule? Part II10m
The Language of Rules5m
Data Dictionary and Taxonomy14m
Value Sets11m
Semantic Networks14m
Ontology15m
1 practice exercise
Module 3 Quiz30m
3 hours to complete
Eliciting and Creating Knowledge for Decision Support
In this module, we will go behind the scenes of decision support, examining where and how we get the knowledge that drives decision support --including data science-- for generating knowledge from data.
3 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 70 min)
9 videos
Expert Knowledge13m
Decision Support Committee3m
Eliciting Expert Knowledge11m
The Literature13m
Data -- Knowledge7m
Statistical Methods11m
AI Dangers6m
Summary2m
1 practice exercise
Module 4 Quiz35m
Reviews
TOP REVIEWS FROM THE OUTCOMES AND INTERVENTIONS OF HEALTH INFORMATICS
by LOct 13, 2019
Learned that there are different ways to input and access information through a system. Also the types of thought processes on how to achieve the outcome.
by DGJul 12, 2020
Wonderful content delivery and appropriate academic level for people new to informatics delivery.
by EJJun 27, 2019
I enjoyed the class sooooooo much I want to be a Mentor for the class!!
by EPJul 24, 2019
Thank you for such a wonderful learning experience!!!
About the Health Informatics Specialization
This Specialization is intended for health professionals, administrators, health IT staff, vendors, startups, and patients who need or want to participate in the health IT/informatics process. Throughout the five courses of this Specialization, you will learn about the social and technical context of health informatics problems, how to successfully implement health informatics interventions, how to design a health informatics solution for decision support, and how to answer a health informatics problem through data retrieval and analysis.
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