Introduction to Clinical Data

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Free Online Course: Introduction to Clinical Data provided by Coursera is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 8 weeks long, 12 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from Coursera. Introduction to Clinical Data is taught by Nigam Shah, Steven Bagley and David Magnus.

Overview
  • This course introduces you to a framework for successful and ethical medical data mining. We will explore the variety of clinical data collected during the delivery of healthcare. You will learn to construct analysis-ready datasets and apply computational procedures to answer clinical questions. We will also explore issues of fairness and bias that may arise when we leverage healthcare data to make decisions about patient care.



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Syllabus
    • Asking and answering questions via clinical data mining
    • Data available from Healthcare systems
    • Representing time, and timing of events, for clinical data mining
    • Creating analysis ready datasets from patient timelines
    • Handling unstructured healthcare data: text, images, signals
    • Putting the pieces together: Electronic phenotyping
    • Ethics
    • Course Conclusion