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Transform, Analyze, & Healthcare Data

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Transform, Analyze, & Healthcare Data

This course is part of Basics of Healthcare Data Analytics: Boost Patient Outcomes Specialization

Instructor: Hurix Digital

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3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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2 hours to complete

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3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

Recommended experience

2 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Data standardization protects patient safety by preventing errors caused by inconsistent dates and duplicate records.
Systematic data cleaning with Excel functions builds reliable datasets for healthcare analytics and clinical decisions.
Lookup functions integrate data across systems, creating complete patient views that enhance care coordination.
Strong healthcare analytics starts with mastering core data manipulation before moving to advanced analysis.

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Microsoft Excel

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There are 3 modules in this course

Healthcare professionals are drowning in data, but few know how to transform it into life-saving insights. This Short Course was created to help data analysts accomplish the critical task of preparing clean, reliable healthcare datasets that drive informed clinical decisions.

By completing this course, you'll be able to standardize date formats across patient admission records, eliminate dangerous duplicate entries that could compromise care quality, and seamlessly merge clinical codes with reference tables to create comprehensive patient profiles that healthcare teams can trust. By the end of this course, you will be able to: • Apply text functions to reformat date values into a standard format • Analyze datasets to identify and remove duplicate records • Apply lookup functions to retrieve data from a reference table This course is unique because it focuses specifically on Excel-based healthcare data scenarios that mirror real clinical environments, using authentic medical datasets and industry-standard formatting challenges that you'll encounter in practice. To be successful in this project, you should have a background in basic Excel operations and familiarity with healthcare data concepts.

Module details

Learners will master Excel text functions to standardize date formats in healthcare datasets, ensuring data consistency critical for patient safety and clinical decision-making.

What's included

3 videos1 reading2 assignments

3 videosTotal 12 minutes

Why Date Standardization Saves Lives in Healthcare3 minutes
Essential Text Functions: TEXT, VALUE, and SUBSTITUTE7 minutes
Standardizing Patient Admission Dates Step-by-Step3 minutes

1 readingTotal 10 minutes

Excel Text Functions for Healthcare Date Standardization10 minutes

2 assignmentsTotal 23 minutes

Healthcare Date Standardization Challenge15 minutes
Text Functions for Date Formatting Assessment8 minutes

Learners will systematically identify and eliminate duplicate patient records using Excel analysis techniques, ensuring data integrity critical for patient safety and accurate clinical reporting.