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Population health informatics is the application of technology to improve population health outcomes. These technology applications may include electronic health record systems, personal health records, telehealth, mobile health apps and other third-party systems. To have population health management, you must consider the patterns of health determinants as well as interventions that link health determinants to health outcomes. In this course, you get an introduction to the basics of population health, how systems are being used to support population health management, and what health care organizations are doing—and need to do—to affect population health in the future. You also cover the role of data, information exchange and analytics, as well as areas such as population health surveillance and data visualization.
Course Outline
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Course Objectives
- Explain the concept of population health and how it is being applied to health care today
- Describe the role of data and analytics in population health management
- Evaluate the various population-health informatics solutions
- Describe approaches to population health measurement and evaluation
- Assess the value and sustainability of informatics applications in population health
What You Learn
- Introduction to population health management and informatics
- Managing data and foundational technologies to enable population health
- Informatics in population health surveillance and statistical issues
- Big data, cloud computing and visual analytics in population health
- Design, development and system evaluation of population health informatics applications
- Telehealth applications, personal health records and mobile health interventions
- Economic value of informatics applications in population health
- Privacy, confidentiality, security and ethics, and innovations and sustainability in population health technologies
How You Learn
- Discussion assignments
- Written assignments
- Quizzes
- Final project