Johns Hopkins University
Health Informatics Specialization
Johns Hopkins University

Health Informatics Specialization

Learn To Tackle Health IT & Big Data the Right Way. Become a leader in the dynamic and rapidly growing field of health informatics.

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Sam Meiselman
Ashwini S. Davison, M.D.
Hadi H. K. Kharrazi, MD, Ph.D

Instructors: Sam Meiselman

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What you'll learn

  • Articulate a coherent problem definition of, and a plan for addressing, a health informatics problem.

  • Answer a health informatics problem through data retrieval and analysis.

  • Design a health informatics solution for decision support.

  • Create a change management and deployment plan for a health informatics intervention.

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Specialization - 5 course series

The Social and Technical Context of Health Informatics

Course 19 hours4.2 (431 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Articulate a coherent problem definition of, and a plan for addressing, a healthcare informatics problem.

  • Create an Informatics Stack analysis of an informatics problem.

  • Describe eleven socio-technical aspects of a health informatics problem or solution.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Health Informatics
Category: Decision-Making
Category: Knowledge Acquisition
Category: Decision Support System
Category: Decision Tree

Leading Change in Health Informatics

Course 215 hours4.7 (264 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Describe essential steps in the process of successfully leading change in health IT organizations.

  • Recognize the importance of multidisciplinary and interprofessional teamwork in health informatics.

  • Utilize several common project management and strategic planning tools used by health informaticists.

  • Apply best practices for successful change management in health informatics.

The Outcomes and Interventions of Health Informatics

Course 36 hours4.5 (87 ratings)

What you'll 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'll gain

Category: Health Informatics
Category: Data Science
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Database (DBMS)
Category: data querying

The Data Science of Health Informatics

Course 410 hours4.6 (193 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Articulate different forms of clinical and population level data.

  • Describe the data required to answer a healthcare information problem.

  • Distinguish between data questions and data queries when dealing with a healthcare information problem.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Health Informatics
Category: Information Technology Planning
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Digital Health
Category: Health Care

Culminating Project in Health Informatics

Course 514 hours4.8 (52 ratings)

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Informatics
Category: Health Informatics
Category: Digital Health
Category: health
Category: Decision Analysis

Instructors

Sam Meiselman
Johns Hopkins University
1 Course17,552 learners
Ashwini S. Davison, M.D.
Johns Hopkins University
5 Courses34,695 learners

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