Workshop II—Dashboard Design for Communicating Healthcare Data

Properly designed, data dashboards have enormous potential to help healthcare professionals visually identify and monitor at a glance the most important information needed to think, reason and make informed healthcare decisions. Yet this potential has not been realized.  This is because the skills that are required simply are not taught, nor are they intuitive.

Currently, dashboards used to communicate healthcare data are more typically poorly designed, at best failing to and at worst even incorrectly communicating the critical information used to measure performance, communicate information to patients and identify the right opportunities for change and improvement to our healthcare systems.  And in healthcare, perhaps more than any other industry, we just can’t afford poor data communication.

This full-day course delivers that hard-to-find hands-on training in the best and most effective design practices.  It’s also interactive, with a combination of lecture and small group case study activities, and designed to give you the tools you need to accurately and effectively present your healthcare data via a dashboard.

Here’s what you will learn:

·         A brief history and definition of data dashboards.

·         The current state of dashboards—problems revealed and opportunities identified.

·         The 13 most common dashboard design mistakes.

·         How to use human visual perceptions to design effective dashboards.

·         The guiding principles of dashboard design.

·         The features of a well-designed dashboard.

·         How to determine the best medium to display your healthcare data.

·         How to organize your dashboard to impart information at a glance

·         How to make your dashboard aesthetically pleasing.

·         How to test your design for usability.

Maximum Number of Participants:  30

Schedule:  The one-day course meets from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Registration begins at 8:15 am. 

Sustenance: Morning and afternoon snacks and lunch will be provided. 

Dress: Informal.

Take Aways:  All participants will also receive a copy of the book Information Dashboard Design—The Effective Visual Communication of Data, by Stephen Few, along with lecture notes and additional references of interest.

Contact Hours:  This activity has been approved by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc., to award six (6) contact hours. Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc. is accredited as an approver of continuing nurse education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s COA.

Cancellations:  Payment is required in advance but it is refundable, less a $50 processing fee, if your cancellation is received three full business days before the seminar. If you fail to attend and do not notify us in advance, the fee is not refunded. Substitutes are welcome—please advise us of the name of the substitute if they wish to be awarded Contact Hours.