Walden MMHA6520 Week 8 Assignment Latest 2021 April

MMHA6520 Health Informatics and Population Health Analytics

Week 8 Assignment  

Final Project: Final Project Milestone 3

For this Assignment, you will extract datasets from the data sources provided in Weeks 5, 6, and 7 that relate to your chosen Final Project topical area. Using datasets that you download from the data sources, you conduct basic statistical analyses such as observations regarding mean, median, and mode seen in the data in order to inform decisions related to health informatics solutions.

Remember that in addition to providing a 1-page description of your Final Project in this milestone defining the population and related health challenges, you also include a relevant chart or graph that summarizes your dataset and its relationship to your Final Project. Be sure that your graphic representation tells the complete picture of the story that you are describing in this project milestone.

To Prepare:

Review data sources that apply to your Final Project topical area from Weeks 5–7. Explore the datasets by sorting data and performing some basic analysis such as examining total counts, demographics, and quantitative topics measured in the dataset, as well as basic descriptive statistics such as averages and means in the data.

Using Microsoft Excel tools, sort the data and graph the data, looking for trends and patterns that you see in the datasets that you extract from each data source. What are the data telling you about the populations involved? How do the data that you see in the datasets compare to quantitative information and other studies that you are reading in your peer-reviewed research on your topical area?

Review any Excel resources as needed in order to conduct data analysis using Excel.

The Assignment: Milestone 3: (3- to 4-sheet Excel file including title page, raw data sheet, and findings, as well as a 2-page Word file with explanation of suggested systems and data sources, financial implications, and graphic representation of data)

Using the Week 8 Data Sources Guidelines, select a source of data from those provided and analyze it in the context of your Final Project. From this provided source of data, you will extract your own dataset. Use the dataset that you extract to address the following:

Title page and overview: (1 page): Define the population and related health challenges.

Explain the scope of the population (e.g., geographic, demographic; other specifics about population).

Excel sheets: Raw data sheets and findings.

Body: Using Health Informatics Data to Address Population Health Challenges (Word file, 2 pages)

Describe at least two different types of systems and data sources that might be used to analyze the population and challenges. Why would these data sources be appropriate?

Explain the financial implications of the problems.

Graphic representation of the data.

Propose a potential data-based solution for reducing the costs related to the population health challenge described.