Data Fundamentals
What is the term for the process of transforming raw healthcare data into a usable format for analysis?
What is data preprocessing?
What type of data source provides information on patient diagnoses, treatments, and outcomes?
What are Electronic Health Records (EHRs)?
What type of chart is commonly used to show the distribution of a single continuous variable in healthcare analytics?
What is a histogram?
What is the process of discovering meaningful patterns and relationships in large datasets called?
What is data mining?
What does HIPAA stand for in the context of healthcare data privacy and security?
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
Name one type of healthcare data that is commonly stored in structured format.
What are demographics (age, gender, etc.)?
Name one external data source commonly used in healthcare analytics for population health insights.
What is census data?
What are two key components of effective data visualization in healthcare analytics?
What are clarity and relevance?
What is the term for the process of predicting future outcomes based on historical data in healthcare analytics?
What is predictive modeling?
Name one principle of the HIPAA Privacy Rule that governs the use and disclosure of protected health information (PHI).
What is the Minimum Necessary Rule?
In healthcare analytics, what does the acronym "EMR" stand for?
What is Electronic Medical Record?
What is the term for data that is collected at regular intervals over time in healthcare analytics?
What is time-series data?
Name one popular data visualization tool used in healthcare analytics, known for its interactive capabilities.
What is Power BI? Tableau? etc.
Name one machine learning algorithm commonly used in healthcare analytics for classification tasks.
What is logistic regression? Gradient Boosting, Random Forest, etc.
What are two key requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regarding the processing of healthcare data?
What are consent and data minimization?
What statistical measure is used to describe the central tendency of a dataset in healthcare analytics?
What is the mean (average)?
What are some challenges associated with integrating data from multiple healthcare systems?
What are data interoperability issues and inconsistencies in data formats?
What is the purpose of using color in data visualization?
What is to encode additional information or emphasize key points?
What is the primary goal of cluster analysis in healthcare analytics?
What is to group similar data points together based on their characteristics?
What is the purpose of the HITECH Act in relation to healthcare data security?
What is to promote the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and strengthen privacy and security protections?
What is the purpose of exploratory data analysis in healthcare analytics?
What is to understand the underlying patterns and relationships in the data before formal modeling?
What is the primary purpose of data warehousing in healthcare analytics?
What is to integrate and consolidate data from various sources for analysis and reporting?
What principle suggests that the visual representation of data should accurately reflect the underlying data values?
What is the principle of data integrity in visualization?
What is the purpose of survival analysis in healthcare analytics?
What is to analyze the time until an event of interest occurs, such as patient mortality or disease progression?
What are some potential consequences of non-compliance with healthcare data privacy regulations?
What are legal penalties, fines, and reputational damage?