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King's College London

Introduction to Data Science for Healthcare Professionals

King's College London via FutureLearn

Overview

Discover data analysis concepts and their applications in healthcare with KCL

Data has had transformative effects on healthcare delivery and management, though many professionals in the sector remain unfamiliar with how to gather and interpret data.

On this six-week course from King’s College London, you’ll explore data science concepts, focusing on how data is collected, analysed, and used to inform professional practice in the healthcare sector.

Examine the data science process, including data modelling, analysis, and visualisation

Data science can help answer questions and explore new perspectives.

You’ll be introduced to data science techniques and systems, defining key terms and concepts, before investigating core skills used in data analysis, modelling, and visualisation.

You’ll also gain an overview of the ethical considerations required when handling data in healthcare, and identify some of the risks and challenges of big data analysis.

With this knowledge, you’ll be able to demonstrate how data can be captured, manipulated, and interpreted for meaningful answers in healthcare contexts.

Work effectively with data scientists and data teams

Having examined the terminology and processes used in data science, you’ll identify opportunities for collaboration with data scientists and teams, improving communication and understanding.

You’ll also be able to explain how your own role may interface with data scientists and data teams.

Understand the role of a data management system in storing and structuring data

You’ll learn how data management systems can organise large amounts of data in an easy to access repository and how this can help optimise data use across departments.

By the end of this course, you’ll have gained an overview of data science processes in healthcare contexts, kickstarting your upskilling in a valuable and necessary area.

This course is designed for healthcare professionals with no experience in data science but whose job roles require them to work alongside or lead teams dealing with data science.

It’s suitable for professionals working in both clinical and non-clinical roles including scientists, management, clinicians, nurses, and pharmacists who have access to and manage data projects or large amounts of data.

Syllabus

  • Defining Data Science
    • Welcome to Data Science in Healthcare
    • What is Data Science
    • The data science team
    • Developing questions to ask the data
    • Wrap up and summary of week one
  • What we can do with all the data available
    • Where this data can be used in healthcare.
    • Data Basics
    • Data Management
    • Summary of the week
  • Sharing the results of our data
    • Introduction to the week
    • Introduction to Data Analysis
    • Data Analysis Tools and Skills
    • Data Visualisation
    • Wrap up and summary of week three
  • Applying data science in healthcare
    • Overview of week four
    • Data protection - GDPR
    • Ethics of Data Science and AI
    • Case studies
    • Wrap up and connect

Taught by

Mike Bennett

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