Description

This course introduces you to a framework for successful and ethical medical data mining. We will explore the variety of clinical data collected during the delivery of healthcare. You will learn to construct analysis-ready datasets and apply computational procedures to answer clinical questions. We will also explore issues of fairness and bias that may arise when we leverage healthcare data to make decisions about patient care.

You will learn

• How to apply a framework for medical data mining
• Ethical use of data in healthcare decisions 
• How to make use of data that may be inaccurate in systematic ways
• What makes a good research question and how to construct a data mining workflow answer it

Tuition

This course is free to audit on the Coursera platform. The cost per course to earn a certificate is $79.

Dates and Duration

Original Release Date: 08/10/2020
Expiration Date: 08/10/2023
Estimated Time to Complete: 11 hours
CME Credits Offered: 11.00

Accreditation 
The Stanford University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Stanford University School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 11.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosures
The Stanford University School of Medicine adheres to ACCME Criteria, Standards and Policies regarding industry support of continuing medical education.  There are no relevant financial relationships with ACCME-defined commercial interests for anyone who was in control of the content of this activity.