Identifying Patient Populations

This course teaches you the fundamentals of computational phenotyping, a biomedical informatics method for identifying patient populations. In this course you will learn how different clinical data types perform when trying to identify patients with a particular disease or trait. You will also learn how to program different data manipulations and combinations to increase the complexity and improve the performance of your algorithms. Finally, you will have a chance to put your skills to the test

• Create a computational phenotyping algorithm
• Assess algorithm performance based on analytic goals
• Combine at least three data types using Boolean logic
• Explain impact of data types on computational phenotyping