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550.714.81
Secondary Uses of Electronic Health Record Data

Location
Internet
Term
2nd Term
Department
Extradepartmental
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2018 - 2019
Instruction Method
TBD
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Description
Introduces students to concepts, methods, and issues related to the application of analytics to Electronic Health Record (EHR) data. Covers the use of EHR data to define and identify populations and sub-populations of patients, evaluate common metrics in health care, and improve patient safety and care quality. Emphasizes the use of EHR data in hospital settings.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Translate a high-level data request into a well-specified request that a programmer could implement
  2. Identify privacy risks in a data request
  3. Identify information systems and data sources required to fulfill a data request
  4. Identify the IDs that need to be reconciled in order to fulfill a request
  5. Identify semantic threats from the component data systems
  6. Describe the architecture of an EHR-based query-fulfilment environment