HIT 120 : Intro to Healthcare Data Management & Analytics

This course introduces students to the concepts and terminology used in the field of healthcare data management and analytics. Students will be introduced to general data characteristics and exploratory data analysis techniques and be asked to evaluate data dictionaries and data sets. Students will be introduced to Structured Query Language (SQL) in relation to healthcare data. Exploratory data analysis will focus on exploring health data to understand the data's underlying structure and variables to develop intuition about the data set, to consider how the data set came into existence.