Yearly Archives: 2022

DQ 1 What is machine learning technology? How is machine learning technology being used in health care? What are the benefits of machine learning technology?   DQ 2 What is the purpose of analytic strategies in health care? Describe a scenario where a health care organization would need an analytics strategy. Using the scenario you […]

DQ 1What is the importance of understanding patterns and trends in data? Provide a specific example. How can the identification of patterns and trends help organizations save time?   DQ 2How is data visualization used? How can an organization determine the best way to present data? Provide a specific example.

DQ 1What is the purpose of data analytics in health care? What is the role of structured query language (SQL) in analytics?   DQ 2Describe how predictive analytics is used operationally in clinical and business processes in health care. In your response to peers, describe one or more roles of predictive analytics in the health […]

DQ1 What are clinical quality measures used for? Identify five clinical quality measures used by CMS. Describe the general structure of the five clinical quality measures you identified and explain how they are reported. Provide an example of how each of the five clinical quality measures you identified are designed to improve the quality of […]

DQ 1What is the purpose of looking at different types of data? What is the role of clinical terminology in data aggregation, normalization, and reconciliation   DQ 2How do you evaluate outliers? How can outliers be used to determine root cause of data integrity issues? Research and briefly explain how CMS uses Winsorization when calculating […]

DQ 1What is the difference between structured and unstructured data? Compare the impact of using structured versus unstructured data.   DQ 2Why does health care data need to be aggregated? In the data aggregation process, what is the impact of using information that is assigned a code as opposed to free text data?

1. Your Annotated Bibliography assignment is the evidential foundation for your Evidence-Based Presentation assignment. In this assignment, students will pick a topic for the Evidence-Based Presentation and identify one new practice change related to that topic that is not already a standard of care. For example, before it was understood that the degrees of the […]

The purpose of this assignment is to get familiar with the Tableau VLab. There are two activities associated with this assignment. Activity 1 is an introductory activity that will assist users in logging into and accessing VLab. Activity 2 is to help the student understand the functions of Tableau and to explore this software application. […]

The purpose of this assignment is to investigate several different sources of information related to the strategic planning process. You will also provide sample data for reporting purposes in order to better evaluate necessity of services. There is one activity associated with this assignment.   Open the VLab activity as assigned by your instructor. Discuss […]

The purpose of this assignment is to work with data and statistics excerpted from different web tools and databases to create a dashboard presentation on fraud and abuse using Tableau. There is one activity associated with this assignment.   Open the VLab activity as assigned by your instructor. Discuss with your instructor if you find […]