Healthcare Analytics Essentials

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Healthcare Analytics Essentials

Instructor: Martin Kohn

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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No prior experience required

1 week to complete

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Flexible schedule

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

40 reviews

Beginner level

No prior experience required

1 week to complete

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Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

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This course is best suited for individuals currently in the healthcare sector, as a provider, payer, or administrator. Individuals pursuing a career change to the healthcare sector may also be interested in this course.

In this course, you will have an opportunity to examine topics related to data-driven decision making in healthcare. You will be asked to consider both the patient and provider perspective and their contributions to improving the quality of care provided. Through the readings, the application of the analytical tools, and the concepts and principles in this course, you will have a more comprehensive understanding of the complexity of healthcare delivery organizations and how they affect patient care delivery and ultimately patient medical outcomes. This course provides you the opportunity to: ~ Describe how healthcare business analytics fits into the data science and business disciplines ~ Identify key current issues in analytics and data science ~ Describe how business analytics integrates with business strategy

This course will help you to see how healthcare analytics fits into data science and business analytics. It will invite you to apply analytical thinking to understanding healthcare delivery, improving quality of patient care, and integrating analytics into the organization’s overall strategy.

What's included

1 video14 readings4 assignments2 app items1 discussion prompt

1 video Total 1 minute

Meet your faculty: Martin Kohn 1 minute

14 readings Total 42 minutes

Welcome to Healthcare Analytics Essentials 1 minute
Providing Mayo Insights: Dr. Dowdy 5 minutes
Syllabus - Healthcare Analytics Essentials 10 minutes
Module 1 Overview 1 minute
What is Statistics? 1 minute
Categories of Data 1 minute
References: Introductory Statistics 10 minutes
Introduction to Business Analytics 1 minute
Descriptive Analytics 2 minutes
Diagnostic Analytics 2 minutes
Applying Predictive Analytics 2 minutes
Developing Predictive Models: Workflow 2 minutes
Prescriptive Analytics 2 minutes
Module Summary 2 minutes

4 assignments Total 26 minutes

Check Your Knowledge 4 minutes
Open-ended Question 5 minutes
Apply Your Knowledge 5 minutes
Module Quiz 12 minutes

2 app items Total 10 minutes

Quantitative and Qualitative Data 5 minutes
Descriptive Statistics 5 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 20 minutes

Meet Your Fellow Learners 20 minutes

In this module, you will learn about the various aspects of healthcare outcomes and how you can choose the relevant and important ones. You will be introduced to the different types of measurements, the challenges of outcome measurement, and the importance of Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurements (PROMs). You will also learn about analyzing data, interpreting the results, and the challenges involved in collecting the data and using it to implement plans.

What's included

8 videos9 readings4 assignments1 discussion prompt

8 videos Total 37 minutes

Why Do We Measure? 3 minutes
Positive and Negative Measures 5 minutes
Outcomes Measurement 6 minutes
Outcome Requirement Challenges 5 minutes
Outcomes Data Challenges 6 minutes
Outcomes Research 3 minutes
Outcomes that Matter 3 minutes
PROMS 7 minutes

9 readings Total 102 minutes

Module Overview 1 minute
Different Kinds of Measurements, Their Accessibility and Utility 3 minutes
Lesson Readings 25 minutes
Requirements and Challenges Involved with Outcomes 2 minutes
Lesson Readings 30 minutes
Summary 2 minutes
Role of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in Healthcare 10 minutes
Patient Decision Aids to Understand Likely Outcomes 4 minutes
Lesson Readings 25 minutes

4 assignments Total 21 minutes

Check Your Knowledge 4 minutes
Check Your Knowledge 4 minutes
Module Quiz 10 minutes
Honors Quiz 3 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 60 minutes

Medical Outcome Measures 60 minutes

In this module, you will learn how to define quality of care, explain the components of evaluating physicians and discuss how formal performance measures, as well as surveys, are tracked and reported. The content covered in this module will provide a better understanding of the relationship between using business analytics to guide and influence both process and change management.

What's included

7 videos8 readings5 assignments1 peer review

7 videos Total 35 minutes

Physician Evaluation 7 minutes
Process Review 3 minutes
Outcomes Performance Measures 6 minutes
Patient Surveys 4 minutes
Managing Physician Change 8 minutes
Incentives for Change Management 5 minutes
Nudging 2 minutes

8 readings Total 85 minutes

Module Overview 2 minutes
Physician Evaluation 2 minutes
Lesson Readings 30 minutes
Aspects of Outcomes Measurement 2 minutes
Lesson Readings 25 minutes
Managing Physician Change 2 minutes
Lesson Readings 20 minutes
Summary 2 minutes

5 assignments Total 19 minutes

Question to Consider 2 minutes
Check Your Knowledge 3 minutes
Check Your Knowledge 4 minutes
Check Your Knowledge 5 minutes
Module Quiz 5 minutes

1 peer review Total 120 minutes

Data Driven Decision Making 120 minutes

In this module you will learn about physician burnout and its effects on patient care, the importance of the peer review panel process to ensuring quality care delivery, the characteristics and sustainability of high reliability organizations, and the role of business analytics to identify errors in high reliability organizations.

What's included

7 videos10 readings4 assignments1 discussion prompt

7 videos Total 36 minutes

Physician Burnout 5 minutes
Addressing Burnout 4 minutes
Addressing Physician Burnout and Standards of Reliability at Mayo Clinic 7 minutes
Peer Review Panels 8 minutes
Approaches for Change 4 minutes
HROs 4 minutes
HRO Errors 4 minutes

10 readings Total 88 minutes

Module Overview 2 minutes
Physician Burnout 2 minutes
Lesson Readings 23 minutes
Peer Review Panels 2 minutes
Lesson Readings 20 minutes
High Reliability Organizations 2 minutes
HROs — Quality Strategy, Principles, and Approach 10 minutes
Lesson Readings 20 minutes
Summary 5 minutes
Congratulations! 2 minutes

4 assignments Total 9 minutes

Check Your Knowledge 2 minutes
Check Your Knowledge 2 minutes
Check Your Knowledge 2 minutes
Module Quiz 3 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 60 minutes

Importance of Care Delivery Processes 60 minutes

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Martin Kohn

Northeastern University

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Excellent mix between pensum and sharing of experiences...

Reviewed on Sep 17, 2025

An excellent course. A few typos, and glitches, which need to be addressed. But a huge pool of knowledge.

Reviewed on Apr 29, 2023

It gives actual healthcare related scenarios and examples in layman language, making it easy to understand at once.

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