Description: Lecture, four hours. Use of technology for data collection and processing, as well as data delivery from patients to healthcare providers, administrators, and analysts. Exploration of sources of big data in healthcare, including electronic medical record data warehouses, social media databases, wireless biosensors, and patient-provider-portal metadata. Review of associated analytic techniques for each data source, including data acquisition and management from data warehouses, hands-on data manipulation in Excel and Access, natural language processing of medical record and social media text, cloud networking for wireless biosensors, and queuing models for evaluating patient throughput. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0