PBHL 5371 Interoperability and Data Standards: Foundation for Analytics and Public Health Surveillance and Response

Course Description:

This course examines the major concepts with foundational emphasis on understanding nomenclature, vocabularies and data standards relevant to public health informatics. Students will understand fundamentals of interoperability and the role of data standards in achieving regional, state and national interoperability for public health. Data transformation, beginning with raw sources of data and generating information, knowledge, and wisdom through population health analytic methods will be covered. This will be a practically oriented course with opportunity for hands on data extraction, transformation and loading to software tools for population health analytics and data visualization using healthcare data from the clinical setting, public domain data and public health surveillance systems.

Credits

3