Improving health and healthcare institutions requires understanding of data and creation of interventions at the many levels at which health IT interact and affect the institution. These levels range from the external “world†in which the institution operates down to the specific technologies. Data scientists find that, when they aim at implementing their models in … [Read more...] about The Social and Technical Context of Health Informatics
Health Informatics
Bioinformatics: Introduction and Methods :
A big welcome to “Bioinformatics: Introduction and Methods†from Peking University! In this MOOC you will become familiar with the concepts and computational methods in the exciting interdisciplinary field of bioinformatics and their applications in biology, the knowledge and skills in bioinformatics you acquired will help you in your future study and research. Course … [Read more...] about Bioinformatics: Introduction and Methods :
Introduction to Clinical Data
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 … [Read more...] about Introduction to Clinical Data
Genome Sequencing (Bioinformatics II)
You may have heard a lot about genome sequencing and its potential to usher in an era of personalized medicine, but what does it mean to sequence a genome? Biologists still cannot read the nucleotides of an entire genome as you would read a book from beginning to end. However, they can read short pieces of DNA. In this course, we will see how graph theory can be used to … [Read more...] about Genome Sequencing (Bioinformatics II)
Bioinformatic Methods II
Large-scale biology projects such as the sequencing of the human genome and gene expression surveys using RNA-seq, microarrays and other technologies have created a wealth of data for biologists. However, the challenge facing scientists is analyzing and even accessing these data to extract useful information pertaining to the system being studied. This course focuses on … [Read more...] about Bioinformatic Methods II
