Data Sanity: A Quantum Leap to Unprecedented Results
Published by MGMA. 2009. Hardbound. 305 pages. ISBN: 978-1-56829-295-3
By Davis Balestracci Jr., MS
Far too much emphasis has been placed on “tools, tools and more tools” (especially statistical techniques), resulting in rampant waste caused by poor everyday organizational use of data.
Many high-level executives have no idea of the vast potential that exists to allow their organizations to take a quantum leap to unprecedented results through a common language of data sanity — new, more productive conversations in reaction to everyday use of data and the resulting meetings and actions.
It is Balestracci’s goal in Data Sanity: A Quantum Leap to Unprecedented Results to teach a new way of thinking via a common organizational language based in process, and understanding variation to motivate more productive daily conversations for everyone.
Topics covered in this book include:
- Quality in Medical Group Practice--and for Everyone: The Importance of Process
- Statistical Thinking as a Conduit to Transformation
- Quality Improvement in a Context of Balanced Scorecards
- A Leadership Belief System: Basic Skills for Transforming Culture
- An Executive Team Handbook: Creating the Culture to Deliver Desired New Results
- The Deeper Implications of Process-Oriented Thinking: Data and Improvement Processes
- Process-Oriented Statistics: Studying a Process-in-Time Sequence
- Statistical Stratification: Analysis of Means
- Organizational Education in a Transformation Mind-Set: Cultural Education and Learning as a Process
- Deeper Project Issues beyond Methodology: New Perspectives on Teams, Tools, Data Skills and Standardization
- The Ins and Outs of Surveys: Understanding the Customer
Leaders in the business of medicine have begun to get over the mental barrier of, “We’re in medicine . . . we’re different.” As this book makes clear, everything is a process, and one’s thinking makes a quantum leap coming to the realization that medicine is no different from any other industry.
Data Sanity invites leaders to accept the challenge of becoming nothing less than an organizational change agent--a unique role that has evolved from educating and facilitating the organization at large to working cooperatively and in true partnership with boards, executive management, and physician leadership.
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