To avoid complications related to data, hospitals can instead simplify data expectations by answering five questions, outlined in a whitepaper by The Greeley Company.
First, the users and providers of data should be able to answer the following four questions around the magnitude, direction, variability and rate of the data:
1. Is it too much or too little, too big or too small, too fast or too slow?
2. Are we getting better or worse?
3. Are the data stable enough that I can draw a conclusion from them, or are they jumping all over?
4. Are things moving slow enough that I have time to think about this, or are they moving so fast that I have to make an emergency decision right now?
Finally, the data should be able to answer a big strategic question:
5. Should we stay the course or change direction?
