Badge Overview

Issued by Hood College

Badge Description

Offered through The Ruth Whitaker Holmes School of Behavioral and Health Sciences at Hood College, the Healthcare Data Analysis badge explores the challenges and possible solutions to ensure the interoperability between health information systems, representation of health data using standardized vocabulary and standards of communication. Topics include data standards and semantics, ontologies such as FHIR, UMLS, SEMNET, ICD-9/10, RXNorn, SNOMED, policy and theory and practice of standardization. Additionally, this course analyzes the challenges confronting healthcare leaders in a new era characterized by economic incentives and changing relationships between providers, payers and purchasers, new delivery models and payment mechanisms, and advances in clinical integration, information technology and quality improvement. Learners will explore leadership strategies required for achieving financial stability while delivering greater value.

health information systems Health Data Data Standards Data Semantics Ontologies information technology

Badge Criteria

Aligned Outcomes

• Internal

  Core Competencies

  https://www.hood.edu/offices-services/institutional-assessment/institutional-learning-outcomes GSO_Comm

  Communication

  The badge earner will communicate clearly and effectively in oral, written and/or visual formats, consistent with the standards of their discipline.

• Internal

  Core Competencies

  https://www.hood.edu/offices-services/institutional-assessment/institutional-learning-outcomes GSO_CriReas

  Critical Reasoning

  The badge earner will approach content and tasks with a critical awareness, framed by knowledge and skills appropriate to their discipline.

• Internal

  Core Competencies

  https://www.hood.edu/offices-services/institutional-assessment/institutional-learning-outcomes GSO_ProbSolv

  Problem Solving

  The badge earner will apply advanced disciplinary content knowledge and strategies to understand and address problems and questions relevant to their discipline and to which they have not previously been introduced.

• Internal

  Core Competencies

  https://www.hood.edu/offices-services/institutional-assessment/institutional-learning-outcomes GSO_Div

  Diversity

  The badge earner will recognize and engage diverse ideas, perspectives and/or traditions that inform their discipline, profession and graduate experience.

• Internal

  Core Competencies

  https://www.hood.edu/offices-services/institutional-assessment/institutional-learning-outcomes GSO_Prof

  Professionalism

  The badge earner will engage in legal, ethical and professional behaviors consistent with their discipline, including leadership, teamwork and/or other responsibilities to key stakeholders.