HAP 720 Health Data Integration Course

Instructor(s): Sanjeev Raman, Farrokh Alemi, Ph.D and Francisco Loaiza, Ph.D., J.D.

Organization: George Mason University

Delivery Mode: Online-self study; also available as online-registered with university

When Offered: Ongoing

Cost: None (when taken as online-self study)

Prerequisites: Following are the prerequisites for this course:

HAP 709 Healthcare Database Course
A bachelor or higher degree from an accredited University. The course is limited to graduate students
Familiarity with the US health care system as all examples are from the US health care system
Microsoft Power Point is needed for viewing some portions of reading and reporting on projects

Description: In this course students learn to manipulate large databases. The objectives of this course are that students learn to:

Create link table queries
Write SQL application programs
Understand sources of data conflicts
Identify methods of integrating ODBC databases with legacy data
Learn concepts of data warehousing
Learn methods of analysis of large databases, including Bayesian belief networks and machine learning in the health care context