The Healthcare Data Science Program seeks to prepare students to work with the “unique” types of healthcare data, including administrative claims, pharmacy-dispensed medications, clinical laboratory tests and EMRs, according to the university.
“This program is unique,” said Paula Buchanan, PhD, an associate professor. “Unlike traditional academic approaches to statistics or computer science, the curriculum focuses on the fundamentals needed to clean, manage, manipulate and analyze ‘big data’ to address major issues in the healthcare system.”
The Healthcare Data Science Program’s curriculum includes software programming, database management and predictive analytics.
The inaugural class of graduate students is scheduled to begin in January.
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