HCA60250c - Data Driven Quality Improvement

(3 units)

Data and QI in healthcare are essential for improving patient care, care coordination, efficiency, and quality while assuring compliance standards are met. The course provides powerful quality improvement (QI) methodology and tools, that will enhance the ability to establish measures and data collection planning and design required for generating reports and supporting continuous quality initiatives to meet State and Federal regulations. Students who take the course will learn an overview of continuous quality improvement techniques and understand the importance of quality and process improvement in healthcare. The course will provide the technical skills to harness data from electronic health records (EHR) that allow Data Analyst to be able to support QI teams and departments.