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How CAE’s Integrated Data Improves Healthcare Training - 3 Benefits

| Roxanne Blanford

Healthcare educators and providers alike are becoming increasingly reliant on decision support systems (DSS) to facilitate decision making within their institutions. In light of the benefits of data-driven intelligence, this growing trend should come as no surprise.

When implemented properly, objective data can encourage institutional growth, increase organizational productivity, and solidify training initiatives for better utilization of operational strengths while giving institutions invaluable opportunities to proactively mitigate obstacles to success. 

The goal is to arm clinical training facilitators with the analytical tools needed to automate processes, optimize decision making, maximize resource and cost management and deliver appropriate training to enhance patient care. 

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How Data Analytics Works in Healthcare Education 

Data-driven insights prove to be quite useful in clinical education.

Not only can analytics help improve the decision-making process (by availing training center managers with empirical data on how actual learners behave and how actual resources are being consumed), but with access to real-time, in-depth and objective information, educators can more readily identify training gaps and performance trends, and take appropriate actions to improve the training program. 

For example, ultrasound training instructors can keep track of learner progress data, monitor assets and inventory, and stay abreast of operational costs and maintenance logs with secure data. Relevant information can be shared and transmitted across the enterprise, allowing more stakeholders and decision-makers to benefit from this knowledge.
 

3 Areas Where Data-Driven Insights Prove Most Beneficial 

Training solutions which leverage the collection of cloud-based metrics, with interpretation and analysis, contribute to continuous improvement in healthcare education programs in several ways, including:
 

Students and Learning

  • Standardized training criteria for increased objectivity in evaluations
  • Learners can self-evaluate behavior in relation to others
  • Training can be tailored to the individual, based on learner aptitudes 
  • Opportunity for more reliable, consistent measurement of learner performance


Instructors and Training Facilitators

  • Secure, cloud-stored data offers instructors quick access to learner records
  • Cost-effective scale of training across locations (mobile, virtual environments, web access, etc.)
  • Self-directed learning that reduces instructor burden
  • Data-driven evaluations for unbiased feedback and training assessment


Decision Making and Operational Efficiencies

  • Drives actionable, fact-based and objective decisions 
  • Enables new development of curriculum offerings based on program effectiveness and best practices 
  • Enhances and improves the learner experience, and can reduce program operation costs
  • Better determination of gaps/needs in training, facility management, and instructor effectiveness

The above is just a sampling of the many advantages of integrating data analytics within healthcare education. Insights obtained from healthcare training data can have a decidedly positive impact on education programs.

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