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About this course

Improving health and healthcare institutions requires understanding of data and creation of interventions at the many levels at which health IT interact and affect the institution. These levels range from the external “world” in which the institution operates down to the specific technologies. Data scientists find that, when they aim at implementing their models in practice, it is the “socio” components that are both novel to them and mission critical to success. At the end of this course, students will be able to make a quick assessment of a health informatics problem—or a proposed solution—and to determine what is missing and what more needs to be learned.

Who Is This Class For? Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and other allied health professionals interested in expanding their understanding of digital health, big data, health information systems, and the unintended consequences of disruptive innovation in the healthcare system. The course is also aimed at those with technical, engineering, or analytics backgrounds who want to understand the nuances of those topics when it comes to healthcare.

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4.0Reviewed Jul 1, 2020

It;s a very interesting course overall. More practical exercises could be more useful instead of tests.

5.0Reviewed Jun 13, 2020

Content and delivery are very clear and concise, would appreciate some more reading material or reference list for each module but otherwise a wonderful learning resource.

4.0Reviewed Apr 21, 2020

As a healthcare worker, I did not pay much attention to health informations systems, this course has integrated and expanded my worldview

5.0Reviewed Jan 23, 2021

I learned a lot about the concept of STACK social and technical application of health informatics.

4.0Reviewed Dec 31, 2022

Informative course, I learned about the definition of Health Informatics and related about it. Good course to learn especially about Health IT which also can help in your work.

5.0Reviewed Nov 25, 2020

Well-organized and helps me develop conceptual, learn to synthesize ideas, and begin constructing knowledge in informatics

5.0Reviewed Sep 24, 2023

This was a great foundational course for Healthcare IT and introduction to the Electronic Healthcare System

5.0Reviewed Dec 21, 2020

New to this field yet inspired and motivated to learn and pursue a career in health informatics. Excellent presentation with clarity and knowlwdge -based information.

4.0Reviewed May 8, 2022

Very interesting. Large amount of information on basic concepts of health informatics. Well explained.

5.0Reviewed Jan 1, 2021

Good start to the specialization, very comprehensive, slides are informative, quizzes are challenging.

5.0Reviewed Oct 12, 2020

This course was very informative and helped me learn new things that i can apply in my life. This can definitely help me in the future.

5.0Reviewed Feb 5, 2021

This was bit harder but a great course and I learnt a lot from it. Basics of public health informatics and hope to keep in mind until the carrier ends. Thank you for the team!

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Edith Jimerson

5.0

Reviewed May 23, 2019

I want a career in Informatics and to work at John Hopkins!! Here I come!!

Maaz Sattar

1.0

Reviewed Jul 10, 2020

Horrible! Absolute disaster. Please do not waste your money here. The instructor has his eyes closed half the course, mumbles in this annoying tone here and there, slides extremely detailed and does not even bother to go through what is mentioned, seems completely uninterested with a bit of burping and nose picking which is extremely unprofessional. With 15-20 min useless lectures, you can do so much more on YouTube believe me. I took this course as a Master student hoping to learn a skill during covid-19, and was confident because of the 4 star rating. All I can say is consider me as "the sacrifice". Happy life to you!

Chinthaka Bandara

5.0

Reviewed Feb 5, 2021

This was bit harder but a great course and I learnt a lot from it. Basics of public health informatics and hope to keep in mind until the carrier ends. Thank you for the team!

Aleiya Virgo-Herron

3.0

Reviewed Jan 22, 2021

Lecturer was knowledgeable. He clearly know his topic. He used great examples. However, he did come across as unexcited. He frequently mumbles and the transcription gets those words incorrect. It's slightly hard for me and I am a born English-speaker. The other language students must have had a hard time. It made me dread having to listen. Occasionally, the quizzes did not reflect the topics taught. The algorithm to mark the quiz also marked some 'right answers' as wrong. There is no answer from Course Moderators in the discussion forums. Those things actually made me discontinue from the rest of the Health Informatics course. I am to discuss with my colleagues about whether we want to complete this.

Oscar Efrén Zazueta-Fierro

1.0

Reviewed Dec 25, 2019

I think this course is very U.S. oriented. This should be highlighted on the course when they offer it through the portal. Also, the course is 100 about the Stack tool developed by the main professor. Other methodologies should be teached. I did not find this tool useful at all and perhaps the professor is a bit bias towards the use of it.

Mayank Agarwal

5.0

Reviewed Mar 6, 2019

This course is a collection of leading thoughts for Health Informatics.

It is a must course to take. It subsumes all other informatics courses. It provides a high level overview as well as guidewires for informaticians.

Muhammad El Sharkawy

5.0

Reviewed Jul 8, 2019

This course is great for beginners in the field of Health Informatics. I really enjoyed it and learnt some new fundamentals concepts and models. Thanks for the effort put in this course

Dr Samuel Inbaraja

5.0

Reviewed Jul 13, 2019

Very good information and the teaching material is easy to process and understand. I think the stack is a brilliant method to assess and to learn it is one of the important aspects of informatics.

David Grannell

5.0

Reviewed Jun 14, 2020

Content and delivery are very clear and concise, would appreciate some more reading material or reference list for each module but otherwise a wonderful learning resource.

Princess Sam

5.0

Reviewed Jul 25, 2019

WAS FANTASTIC, GOOD PARTICIPATING IN THIS COURSE AND GLAD TO BE PART O

Raveendra Maharjan

5.0

Reviewed May 12, 2019

For the beginners, the information is just right amount to start up.

Dan Edonyabo

5.0

Reviewed Mar 7, 2019

Very informative;highly recommended!

Deleted Account

4.0

Reviewed Oct 17, 2019

Great introduction. Only criticism is the course content should reflect the quiz better.

Warren W. Goldman

2.0

Reviewed Jan 11, 2021

This course is not what I expected, and it failed to meet the preferred learning standards. While Dr. Lehmann is obviously very knowledgeable, his constant stuttering make the presented material hard to understand. He did not follow the slide presentation material along as well as other presenters, and he left many key pieces of information out of his overall presentation of each segment.

1.0

Reviewed Jun 15, 2020

The tests are incorrect and the some of the language in the tests are unnecessarily confusing. I was charged for this course but I will not being going forward. This was not a pleasant experience.

NISHITA JAGADISH

5.0

Reviewed Apr 27, 2019

Its been an overwhelming subject for me to learn, coming from a clinical background. However, the course design has been increasingly helpful in breaking down the concept and later putting it all together to critically analyse and understand the bigger picture of health informatics. I am an absolute fan of the Stack Analysis concept taught by Dr Lehmann.

Majid Jaweed

5.0

Reviewed Jun 7, 2019

great course , but there is no any reading material provided in it .

SAR

5.0

Reviewed Oct 8, 2019

Thank you very very much🥰🥰🥰

Fabricia Cristina Marques Jung

4.0

Reviewed Apr 13, 2020

This course should have more texts and material for study.

Tarun Rajpurohit

3.0

Reviewed Jun 11, 2020

There were no prerequisites required for this course. Being from a non-technical background I faced difficulties while comprehending the content, The instructor could have made it student-friendly and besides it was all restricted to the stack, social aspects were only illustrated in examples, could have added more. That's all from my side, I elaborated what I felt over here.