Introduction to the Big Data Era and Opportunities for Better Health Care

This course is part of UBC Micro-certificate in Health Data Analytics: Opportunities and Applications program. Participants of this course are able to: 1. discuss the impact of data science on diverse fields including health care delivery, research, technology, manufacturing and more; 2. describe the current state of health data collection and sharing in BC; recognize current applications of data science in the health system (clinical and administrative/operational decision making); understand the long-term vision and health data strategy for BC; and describe the building blocks necessary to achieve this vision 3. identify key considerations when working with health data in BC, including ethical, privacy and data governance aspects 4. describe health data sources in BC; understand the origin, intention and limitations of data sets and the implications for interpretation 5. develop a basic understanding of clinical problems in medicine that would benefit or have benefitted from data science approaches 6. demonstrate which data science approach is appropriate for a given scenario 7. obtain a basic understanding of the characteristics and opportunities presented by imaging, time series, natural language and genomics data to better patient care 8. explain how the collection of various types of data can improve clinical operations, or the clinical diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of diseases