HISM (D033) Unparalleled Knowledge.

Clinical practice guidelines A tool that provides a detailed, step-by-step guide used by healthcare practitioners to make knowledge-based decisions related to patient care and issued by an authoritative organization such as a medical society cloud computing A computer system that is owned and maintained by a vendor Dashboards Reports of process measures to help leaders follow progress to assist with strategic planning. Provides status on key measures. Data raw facts and figures Data analytics The science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing conclusions about that information. This information can then be used to make business decisions concerning which services to provide and how to improve patient care. Data mining The process of extracting and analyzing large volumes of data from a database for the purpose of identifying hidden and sometimes subtle relationships that would be unnoticed without the analysis Descriptive statistics