HIMSS and Alliant International University Partner on Healthcare Data Analytics Course

Alliant’s California School of Management and Leadership (CSML) and HIMSS have partnered to launch an Intermediate Healthcare Data Analytics course, offering knowledge and skills to improve healthcare through innovative and essential techniques that enable the delivery of efficient and quality healthcare analytics.

The self-paced online course spans 12 weeks, Monday, March 28, to Sunday, June 19, 2022. Registration closes March 17.

Dr. Frank Song, CSML Adjunct Professor and Data and Analytics Director for the Central California Alliance for Health, will be available to monitor progress and provide support.

Course Objectives

• Why analytics is the fundamental tool and enterprise engine for successful healthcare delivery transformation to better quality, lower cost and improved customer satisfaction
• How analytics is used in supporting healthcare quality improvement through provider profiling (measure development, variations monitoring and control, benchmark and best practice comparison, outlier reduction)
• How analytics is used in supporting healthcare outcome improvement through patient profiling and population health management (risk stratification, gap analysis, impact estimate and prediction)
• How analytics is used in supporting healthcare fraud, waste and abuse reduction to improve operational efficiency 
• How to build, grow and develop a robust analytical capacity towards a mature analytical organization to support insight-driven operation

This course will teach powerful skills to seasoned professionals seeking to enhance their careers, those looking to expand opportunities as well as those entering the corporate community.

Participants earn a certificate of completion upon conclusion of this course with the potential to transition into Alliant International University’s Master of Science in Healthcare Analytics or Master of Science in Data Analytics programs and the possibility of some graduate credits earned.