This compendium of references and tools is intended to support Quality Improvement efforts and to build skills across health center staff, particular those who may be tasked with leading data literacy and data governance activities or are new to the health center world. Download the PDF at the bottom for your own use.

Data Governance + Data Literacy: Tools for Building your Team

• Analytics Capability Assessment from Center for Care Innovations
• Why companies must close the data literacy divide? from Forbes
• Data Governance  Handbook from Center for Care Innovations
• Engaging the Data Creators from HITEQ
• Job Function Decision Tree from HITEQ
• Sample Quality Improvement Specialist Monthly Calendar from HITEQ
• Sample of a Staff Members Dashboard for Required Tasks from HITEQ

Key Knowledge

• Staff Orientation to the use of Health IT to Achieve the Triple Aim (Three Part eLearning Module) from HITEQ
• PCMH, Meaningful Use, and eCQM Crosswalk, plus Performance Measure Data Definition Worksheet from HITEQ in 2017
• Current UDS Manual (which includes links to eCQMs for clinical quality measures)
• eCQI Resource Center (for eCQM specifications)
• Most Recent eCQM Logic and Implementation Guidance (updated Nov. 2019)
• Workflows for each eCQM (PDF download with workflows) from eCQI Resource Center

Key Skills

• Microsoft Excel References and Trainings
• Pivot tables
• VLOOKUP Excel Function
• Stack Overflow (for specific Excel, Access, SQL questions)
• User Friendly Format Ideas
• Storytelling with Data http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/
• Specific example shown: Adding a Vertical Reference Line http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/blog/2018/8/7/tactical-tip-embedding-a-vertical-reference-line-in-excel
• Chart Chooser http://labs.juiceanalytics.com/chartchooser/index.html
• Tableau Gallery https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/gallery
• Information is Beautiful https://informationisbeautiful.net/
• Designing Data Dashboards from HITEQ