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The Quadruple Aim

A Conceptual Framework

Improving the U.S. health care system requires four aims: improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, reducing per capita costs and improving care team well-being. HITEQ Center resources seek to provide content and direction aligned with the goals of the Quadruple Aim

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Health IT & QI Workforce Professional Development

Building Data Teams and Skills: Maximizing Data Literacy and Data Governance for a Data Driven Culture

HITEQ Center / Thursday, January 31, 2019

/ Categories: Health IT Enabled QI, Foundation for HIT Enabled QI, Communicating with Data, Health IT & QI Workforce, Professional Development, UDS Resources

Building Data Teams and Skills: Maximizing Data Literacy and Data Governance for a Data Driven Culture

A compendium of references and tools. Created in October 2018, updated January 2020.

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

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Intended Audience

Quality Improvement Staff, Data Governance Teams

Documents to download

Building Data Teams and Skills Maximizing Data Literacy and Data Governance for a Data Driven Culture(.pdf, 456.66 KB) - 826 download(s)

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Acknowledgements

This resource collection was compiled by the HITEQ staff with portions contributed by Chris Espersen, HITEQ Advisory Committee member and Independent Contractor and Past President of Midwest Clinicians Network; Shane McBride, Independent Contractor and Past Vice President of Quality and Clinical Systems at South End Community Health Center; Chris Grasso, Associate Director for Informatics & Data Services- The Fenway Institute; and Ed Phippen, Principal - Phippen Consulting, LLC.