Process Mining in Healthcare (FutureLearn)

Process Mining in Healthcare (FutureLearn)

Learn how process mining can be used to turn healthcare data into valuable insights to improve patient care while reducing costs. Within healthcare there are thousands of complex and variable processes that generate data including treatment of patients, lab results and internal logistic processes. Analysing this data is vital for improving these processes and ending bottlenecks.

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On this course you will explore how process mining can help turn this data into valuable insights by looking at different areas of process mining and seeing how it has been applied. You will even get the chance to apply process mining on real life healthcare data.

Syllabus

Week 1: Introduction to process mining in healthcare
Week 2: Getting and converting event data
Week 3: Using event data: inspection, discovery and conformance checking
Week 4: Performance analysis, process improvement and challenges for process mining

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

  • Explain how process mining can help in analysing and improving healthcare processes
  • Identify opportunities for process mining in a healthcare organisation
  • Describe the data requirements in order to apply process mining
  • Interpret the results of various process mining techniques in the ProM lite tool
  • Apply ProM lite on real data to obtain process mining results

Who is the course for?
This course is for healthcare experts who want to find out more about using data to solve problems and execute ideas. It will also be of interest to process mining enthusiasts who want to know more about the application of process mining to healthcare. You don’t need any prior experience, just a keen interest in the topic.

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