Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated. LOOKING AT THE DATA [WLOS: 1, 3] [CLO: 3] Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, Read Health Care Transformation: A Strategy Rooted in Data and AnalyticsLinks to an external site. Watch Improving Health With Data | William Paiva | TEDxOStateULinks to an external site. Using Big Data to Improve Healthcare Services | Tiranee Achalakul | TEDxChiangMaiLinks to an external site. Big Data in Healthcare: Breaking Through the NoiseLinks to an external site. (read the webpage and watch the video) Introduction Over the last few years, health care has transformed from a fee for service focus to a value-based care focus. A large contributing factor to the transition has been data. The introduction of electronic health records has created a tremendous volume of discrete patient data. Common practice now is to pull the data into reports for analysis and identification of areas for improvement. Instructions For this discussion, you will examine a snapshot from a data set Download data setreport on provider efficiency. In your post, Interpret the provided data set. Identify what is presented. Identify what is missing. Provide your opinion on the story the data is telling. Guided Response Please review several of your colleagues’ posts, and respond to at least three of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 (Monday). Comment on what you think of your colleagues’ analysis. Do you agree? Disagree? Elaborate on your response providing substantive feedback to further the discussion. Feel free to add any other thoughts, ideas, and more to this discussion. You are encouraged to post your required replies earlier in the week to promote more meaningful and interactive discourse in this discussion forum. Continue to monitor the discussion forum through Day 7 (Monday), and respond to anyone who replies to your initial post.

Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

LOOKING AT THE DATA [WLOS: 1, 3] [CLO: 3]

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum,

Read

Health Care Transformation: A Strategy Rooted in Data and AnalyticsLinks to an external site.

Watch

Improving Health With Data | William Paiva | TEDxOStateULinks to an external site.

Using Big Data to Improve Healthcare Services | Tiranee Achalakul | TEDxChiangMaiLinks to an external site.

Big Data in Healthcare: Breaking Through the NoiseLinks to an external site. (read the webpage and watch the video)

Introduction

Over the last few years, health care has transformed from a fee for service focus to a value-based care focus. A large contributing factor to the transition has been data. The introduction of electronic health records has created a tremendous volume of discrete patient data. Common practice now is to pull the data into reports for analysis and identification of areas for improvement.

Instructions

For this discussion, you will examine a snapshot from a data set Download data setreport on provider efficiency. In your post,

Interpret the provided data set.

Identify what is presented.

Identify what is missing.

Provide your opinion on the story the data is telling.

Guided Response

Please review several of your colleagues’ posts, and respond to at least three of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 (Monday).

Comment on what you think of your colleagues’ analysis. Do you agree? Disagree? Elaborate on your response providing substantive feedback to further the discussion.

Feel free to add any other thoughts, ideas, and more to this discussion.

You are encouraged to post your required replies earlier in the week to promote more meaningful and interactive discourse in this discussion forum. Continue to monitor the discussion forum through Day 7 (Monday), and respond to anyone who replies to your initial post.