Ken uses real-world examples, including results, so attendees can take the concepts home and apply them in their own day to day work.

• Data for the Quality Professional
• “Doing data” and “Explaining Data”
• The “Basics”, “Emerging issues” and “Taking it to the next level”
• Data Challenges that we will always need to deal with:
• What it means to be “Data Driven” – how do you explain this to your board and leadership
• Getting your data under control – Are you controlling your data or is it controlling you?
• Data that does not answer questions is not very useful
• Emerging Issues
• Key data streams you need to manage, understand and be able to explain in 2017
• The link between your performance data and Value Based Purchasing Reimbursement
• The link between your data and the Publically Reported “Performance Stars”
• Re-admit data
• Taking it to the next level
• Data mining for all of us
• The new, super-powerful data mining software that you already have on your computer – for FREE
• Excel Power Pivot and Power BI
• Data and our careers as Quality Professionals
• Five Do’s and Don’ts

About the Presenter: Ken Rohde is the owner of KR Rohde LLC. He is also a Senior Consultant for Patient Safety & Process Improvement for The Greeley Company. Ken is a consultant that focuses on helping Senior Leadership and Board of Directors in high risk industries such as healthcare and nuclear power to prevent significant and high risk errors in their business and evaluate causality and corrections when significant errors occur. He provides organizational training that focuses on developing Cultures of Safety, free & open reporting cultures, effective reaction to events and errors, proactive systems, and equipment and behavior risk analysis. A significant focus of Ken’s work has been on the effective collection, analysis and presentation of data to achieve organizational goals.