HLT POL 441Data Analytics: Identifying, Collecting, and Analyzing Data in Health Care
Health Policy and Management · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Exploration of data sources and uses in health care, e.g., electronic medical records, social media, wireless biosensors, system and facility data. Review of hands-on techniques including data management, development of indexes and metrics, choosing and implementing analysis methods and visualizations. Discussion of role of data collection and processing within health care system.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Fall 2026
- Winter 2027
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 439 or proof of waiver examination.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
HLT POL 441
- HLT POL 439Data Software for Public Health Professionals
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.