{"id":11098,"date":"2011-02-18T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T15:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=11098"},"modified":"2014-11-14T15:34:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:34:32","slug":"graduate-students-learn-how-to-convert-raw-data-into-meaningful-health-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2011\/02\/graduate-students-learn-how-to-convert-raw-data-into-meaningful-health-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate students learn how to convert raw data into meaningful health information."},"content":{"rendered":"

With the availability of raw health data growing at phenomenal rates, one enormous challenge is disseminating statistics so people can actually use the information.<\/p>\n

Last fall, graduate students in a course focused on health informatics, working on their Master of Science in Management Information Systems (MSMIS) in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU), received a real-life assignment from Monica Chiarini Tremblay<\/strong>, who teaches business intelligence and health informatics courses.<\/p>\n

\u201cI gave the students recently released nationwide health rankings and other data,\u201d she said. \u201cTheir assignment? To develop a dashboard (at-a-glance communication tool) to help people in a decision-making situation factor community health information in their process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vanessa Lora <\/strong>(MSMIS \u201910, MHSA \u201908), who is also a medical doctor, developed a dashboard that could help Floridians and public health agencies assess healthcare outcomes regarding diabetes.<\/p>\n

The dashboard compares counties in Florida with respect to healthy environments and behaviors proven to prevent type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n

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One dashboard brought together data about type 2 diabetes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt also lets diabetic patients compare healthcare quality and access in different counties, to help make decisions about where to live,\u201d Lora said.<\/p>\n

A group called Blue Team created a dashboard to see whether occurrences of teen births, graduation rates and single parenthood correlate with Chlamydia rates; their graphs show that these three situations do lead to higher rates.<\/p>\n

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Another dashboard focused on factors related to Chlamydia rates. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cOur dashboard can be used to determine where to target money to reduce the occurrence of Chlamydia,\u201d said team member David M. Granda <\/strong>(MSMIS \u201910, BS \u201909).<\/p>\n

Granda added that graphing the data in real time was the most difficult aspect of the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince data constantly change, the dashboard needed to pull fresh information constantly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Project helps students learn to serve today\u2019s population. <\/em><\/p>\n

For many, this project was their last work in completing their MSMIS degree.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an excellent way of concluding their studies, especially since prior to this course, they completed the Business Intelligence Applications<\/em> course,\u201d said Tremblay, who based her assignment on a nationwide competition for industry professionals. \u201cThis assignment helped them take raw data and create a way to make information available. It went so well that I will be repeating this assignment in upcoming classes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the availability of raw health data growing at phenomenal rates, one enormous challenge is disseminating statistics so people can actually use the information. Last fall, graduate students in a course focused on health informatics, working on their Master of Science in Management Information Systems (MSMIS) in the College of Business Administration at Florida International […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3398,1935,1957],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23752,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11098\/revisions\/23752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}