Health Care Problem Infographic
As a data technologist at Mi’Amore Medical Center, you have been asked to describe the magnitude of three specific health care problems and explain how big data and health care analytics can contribute to minimizing or eliminating these problems. To complete this task, you will need to create an infographic.
Assignment IntroductionAssignment Directions
Unit Outcomes addressed in this assignment:
- Analyze sources of health care data.
- Explore data analytics and visualization software.
- Assess the role of health care data analytics solutions in addressing health care problems.
Course Outcome addressed in this assignment:
HI560-1: Evaluate the value and impact of data analytics on health care.
nfographic Requirements
- Your infographic should be at least one full page.
- Online templates may be used to format your assignment as an infographic. For example, Microsoft provides some templates to use in PowerPoint.
- Evaluate the magnitude of three health care problems.
- Why do the problems exist?
- Who or what do these problems impact (health systems, population, etc.)?
- What statistical methods or metrics were used for the data visualizations you included (e.g., correlation, mean, median)? Discuss the choice of these methods.
- Discuss how health care data analytics can aid in minimizing or eliminating these problems.
- Include visual elements for each problem, such as graphs, etc. that support the discussion.
- The visual elements should relate to health care data analytics, using graphs from your outside sources to show the magnitude of the health care problems.
- Provide citations for supportive resources throughout and provide a reference page in APA format.
- Save and submit your infographic as a PDF file.
Assignment Resources
Chapter 11 of Visualizing Health and Healthcare Data discusses design and the difference between an infographic and an infoposter.
Examples of infographics from the CDC: Global Health Information Infographics.
Submitting your work
Submit your assignment to the Unit 2 Assignment Dropbox.