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Managing Your Health Data (FutureLearn)

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How is your health data being used? Find out and discover tools and methods to improve how your health data is managed. Learn how to take control of your own health data. Social networks, health devices, mobile apps, websites about diesase - advances in technology have created huge amounts of biomedical data about us.

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On this course you will explore how you can actively manage your own health data. You will learn what health data is and how it’s stored. You will discover tools you can use to understand and use your own health data. You will also consider the security, legal and ethical issues surrounding health data management. You should leave the course empowered to manage and make us of your own health data.

What topics will you cover?

Overview of health data
Introduction to Hospital Health Data Management
Introduction to Citizen Health Data Management
Overview of trustworthy and verified online services

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

Describe what health data is
Explore information resources used in medical care and health research
Develop a Personal Health Record
Compare different trustworthy and verified resources of clinical information
Explore tools and applications for clinical data management
Demonstrate a basic knowledge of Hospital Health Data Management
Produce clinical data using wearable or health monitoring devices

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