Data Integration Training: Syllabus
Detailed course outline
This outline gives you an idea of specifically what will be covered during this training. The training answers the following questions:
What the mobile health landscape looks like
- What types of mobile health data are currently available?
- Who makes that data available? How many users do they have? What kinds of devices do they make? How much they charge?
- How accurate is that data?
What to expect when integrating
- How long does it takes to integrate with one provider? How does that scale for many providers?
- How much does it cost to integrate?
- What skills and expertise does your team need?
- What are the pitfalls of an integration and how can you navigate around them?
- What tools are available to help you integrate quickly?
How to access mobile health data from an API
- What does health data from these APIs look like?
- How does getting data from a health API differ from a typical API?
- What are good ways ways to handle identification, authentication and authorization?
- How do you address cross-cutting concerns like pagination, rate-limiting, and error conditions?
- How do you quickly make sense of API documentation?
How to put that data into your system
- How can you manage third-party credentials?
- How do you keep data on your systems in sync with APIs?
- What are common ways to deduplicate mobile health data?
- How can you remain highly-available in the face of API changes?
Learning objectives
These learning objectives provide an overview of what learners will be able to do after this training. Attendees will learn how to:
- Identify the ways that mobile health data could be valuable for them
- Choose the best APIs to meet their needs
- Evaluate the costs and resources required to integrate mobile health data
- Identify the tools that will help integrate mobile health data
- Access and integrate digital health data from major mobile health platforms
- Navigate the challenges and common pitfalls that arise when integrating