Data Fundamentals: Introduction to Improving Desktop Productivity in Health Care

October 16, 2008
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
The Graduate Center
New York, NY

Introduction to Improving Desktop Productivity in Health Care will use hands-on exercises to train planning, finance, and information professionals in manipulating large amounts of health care data by using sample billing and Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) data via the application of core techniques built into Microsoft Office.

Introduction to Improving Desktop Productivity in Health Care combines software skills training with real-world scenarios from health care to help you do your job faster, smarter, and more effectively.

Faculty will:

explore a variety of data presentation issues;
provide guidance as to when to use a table of data instead of a chart;
demonstrate how to create a map to illustrate findings;
show how to combine data from a variety of sources; and
illustrate how to quickly extract useful information from sample billing and SPARCS data.

At the conclusion of this program, participants will:

understand and be able to optimize the power of Microsoft Excel, Word, and other applications to effectively communicate health care data;
improve their abilities to analyze data more effectively and efficiently; and
enhance decision-making through better data-driven analysis.