Using health data : applying technology to work smarter

Using Health Data addresses the enduring problem faced by most healthcare workers: the transformation and presentation of data into meaningful and accessible information. This practical new text will guide the manipulation of health data needed by the 'doers' and 'users' of health data.

Using Health Data takes 'real' examples from healthcare practice to illustrate, demonstrate and provide advice. It also describes various quantitative quality control charting and plotting methods to enable the effective presentation of data. While the text addresses the fundamentals of data manipulation, the interactive companion website allows readers to practice transforming real data into meaningful information.

Using Health Data will aid the reader in:
- understanding how to transform qualitative data into quantitative measures;
- linking data from multiple sources to create new information and
- differentiating between different types of health data; administrative, for planning or resource scheduling; and clinical evidence. concise and practical guide to using data for health students and practitioners information is divided into accessible sections with clear and straightforward progression of skills screen dumps, charts and graphs are integrated throughout icons in the text direct readers to web-based activities Tips and Tricks at end of each section, and FAQs at the end of the text activities are built around real-world examples in healthcare

• Section 1 Introduction
• Principles of data entry and quality
• Rationale
• Why do we have standards?
• What is data?
• Why do we need clean data?
• Principles of data storage and retrieval
• Security of data
• Confidentiality of data
• Ethical use of data
• Section 2 Data Manipulation
• Transforming Database Data
• Basics
• Structure
• Find, Sort, Group
• Queries
• Sharing
• Analysing the data
• Cross tab analysis
• Charts
• Ways of Presenting this Data
• Creating meaningful charts
• Reading Charts
• What do they tell you?
• Employing Graphics
• Tips and Tricks
• Transforming Spreadsheet Data
• Basics
• Structure
• Filtering and Sorting
• Wildcards
• Formatting Data
• Analysing the data
• Summarising data
• 'What if' analysis
• Ways of Presenting this Data
• Creating meaningful charts
• Reading Charts
• What do they tell you?
• Employing Graphics
• Tips and Tricks
• Transforming Word processor Data
• Simple Research
• Section 3 Presenting Data for Impact
• Word
• Document Presentation
• PowerPoint
• Basics of presentation
• Charts
• Web
• Blogs
• Wikis
• WiFi
• Tips and Tricks
• Conclusion
• FAQs