Learn how the dramatically increased quantities of data—and the methods for analyzing this data—are changing the theory and practice of healthcare.
The Data Science of Healthcare, Medicine, and Public Health, with Barton Poulson
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Healthcare and data science
- Data science and COVID-19
- Shared history of health and data visualization
- Measuring health and disease
- Researching diseases in populations
- Genetic data and healthcare
- Diagnosing diseases
- Drug (re)discovery
- Predicting outcomes
- Treatments and ROI
- Selecting treatments and interventions
- Individualized treatment
- Robotic surgery
- 3D printing and healthcare
- Virtual reality in healthcare
- Telemedicine
- Wearables and health monitoring
- Self-serve healthcare
- Patient experience
- Administrative burden for doctors and staff
- Blockchain and medical data
- Data science and health insurance
- Limitations and barriers
- Data ethics in healthcare
- Preparing for an unknown future
- Next steps and additional resources
Taught by
Barton Poulson
