Dashboard Benchmark Evaluation

ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

PREPARATION

For this assessment, you may choose one of the following three options for a performance dashboard to use as the basis for your benchmark evaluation.

Option 1: Dashboard and Health Care Benchmark Evaluation Simulation

If you decide to use one of the simulation dashboards for your evaluation, review both dashboards, as well as the relevant local, state, and federal laws and policies linked in each dashboard. Choose one of the dashboards and consider the metrics within it that are falling short of the prescribed benchmarks.

Option 2: Actual Dashboard From a Professional Practice Setting

If you choose an actual dashboard from a professional practice setting for your evaluation, be sure to add a brief description of the organization and setting that includes:

The size of the facility that the dashboard is reporting on.
The specific type of care delivery.
The population diversity and ethnicity demographics.
The socioeconomic level of the population served by the organization.

Note: Ensure that your data is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant. Do not use any easily identifiable organization or patient information.

Option 3: Hypothetical Dashboard Based on a Professional Practice Setting

If you have a sophisticated understanding of dashboards that are relevant to your own practice, you may also construct a hypothetical dashboard for your evaluation based on that setting. Your hypothetical dashboard must present at least four different metrics, at least two of which must be underperforming the relevant benchmark set forth by a federal, state, or local laws or policies. In addition, be sure to add a brief description of the organization and setting that includes:

The size of the facility that the dashboard is reporting on.
The specific type of care delivery.
The population diversity and ethnicity demographics.
The socioeconomic level of the population served by the organization.

Note: Ensure that your data is HIPAA compliant. Do not use any easily identifiable organization or patient information.

REPORT REQUIREMENTS

Structure your report in such a way that it would be easy for a colleague or supervisor to locate the information they need. Be sure to cite relevant local, state, or federal health care laws or policies when evaluating metric performance against prescribed benchmarks. Cite an additional 2–4 credible sources to support your analysis and evaluation of the challenges in meeting the benchmarks, the potential for performance improvement, and your advocacy for ethical action.

Note: The tasks outlined below correspond to grading criteria in the scoring guide.

In your report, be sure to:

Evaluate dashboard metrics against the benchmarks set by local, state, or federal health care laws or policies.
- Which metrics are below the mandated benchmarks in the organization? Evaluate weaknesses within the entire set of benchmarks.
- What are the local, state, or federal health care laws or policies that set these benchmarks?
Analyze challenges that meeting prescribed benchmarks can pose for the organization or for an interprofessional team.
- What are the specific challenges or opportunities that the organization or interprofessional team might have in meeting the benchmarks? For example, consider:
  - The strategic direction of the organization.
  - The organization’s mission.
  - Available resources:
    - Staffing.
    - Operational and capital funding.
    - Physical space.
    - Support services (any ancillary department that supports a specific care unit in the organization, such as a pharmacy, cleaning services, and dietary services).
  - Cultural diversity in the organization.
  - Cultural diversity in the community.
  - Organizational processes and procedures.
- How might these challenges be contributing to benchmark underperformance?
Evaluate a benchmark underperformance in the organization or interprofessional team that has the potential for greatly improving overall quality or performance.
- Which metric is underperforming its benchmark by the greatest degree?
- Which benchmark underperformance is the most widespread throughout the organization or interprofessional team?
- Which benchmark affects the greatest number of patients?
- Which benchmark affects the greatest number of staff?
- How does this underperformance affect the community the organization serves?
- Where is the greatest opportunity for improvement in the overall quality or performance of the organization or interpersonal team—and ultimately in patient outcomes?
Advocate for ethical action in addressing the benchmark underperformance that has the potential for greatly improving overall quality or performance.
- At which group of stakeholders should your advocacy be directed? Which group could be expected to take the appropriate action to improve the benchmark metric?
- What are some ethical actions that the stakeholder group could take that support improved benchmark performance?
- Why should the stakeholder group take action?
Communicate your findings and recommendations in a professional and effective manner.
- Ensure that your report is well organized and easy to read.
- Write clearly and logically, using correct grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
Integrate relevant sources to support your arguments, correctly formatting source citations and references using current APA style.
- Did you cite relevant local, state, or federal health care laws or policies when discussing the mandated benchmarks?
- Did you cite an additional 2–4 credible sources to support your analysis, evaluation, and advocacy?

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Dashboard Benchmark Evaluation Scoring Guide

CRITERIA	NON-PERFORMANCE	BASIC	PROFICIENT	DISTINGUISHED
Evaluate dashboard metrics with regard to benchmarks set by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws.	Does not analyze dashboard metrics with regard to benchmarks set by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws.	Analyzes dashboard metrics, but relationship to benchmarks set by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws is missing or flawed.	Evaluates dashboard metrics with regard to benchmarks set by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws.	Evaluates dashboard metrics with regard to benchmarks set by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws, and identifies knowledge gaps, unknowns, missing information, unanswered questions, or areas of uncertainty (where further information could improve the evaluation).
Analyze challenges that meeting prescribed benchmarks can pose for a heath care organization or an interprofessional team.	Does not list challenges that meeting prescribed benchmarks can pose for a heath care organization or an interprofessional team.	Lists but does not analyze challenges that meeting prescribed benchmarks can pose for a heath care organization or an interprofessional team, or provides a flawed analysis that misses key challenges.	Analyzes challenges that meeting prescribed benchmarks can pose for a heath care organization or an interprofessional team.	Analyzes challenges that meeting prescribed benchmarks can pose for a heath care organization or an interprofessional team, and identifies assumptions on which the analysis is based.
Evaluate a benchmark underperformance in a heath care organization or an interprofessional team that has the potential for greatly improving overall quality or performance.	Does not evaluate a benchmark underperformance in a heath care organization or an interprofessional team that has the potential for greatly improving overall quality or performance.	Provides a partial or flawed evaluation of a benchmark underperformance in a heath care organization or an interprofessional team; misses factors that are key to understanding the potential for improving overall quality or performance.	Evaluates a benchmark underperformance in a heath care organization or an interprofessional team that has the potential for greatly improving overall quality or performance.	Evaluates a benchmark underperformance in a heath care organization or an interprofessional team that has the potential for greatly improving overall quality or performance, and defends reasoning for selecting this benchmark over another with similar potential for improvement.
Advocate for ethical action in addressing a benchmark underperformance, directed toward an appropriate group of stakeholders.	Does not advocate for ethical action in addressing a benchmark underperformance, directed toward an appropriate group of stakeholders.	Attempts to advocate for ethical action but attempt is flawed, superficial, or does not address an appropriate group of stakeholders.	Advocates for ethical action in addressing a benchmark underperformance, directed toward an appropriate group of stakeholders.	Advocates for ethical action in addressing a benchmark underperformance, directed at an appropriate group of stakeholders, and recommends criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of recommended action.
Communicate evaluation and analysis in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.	Does not communicate evaluation and analysis findings and recommendations in a professional and effective manner; does not write content clearly and logically, and does not use correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling.	Communicates evaluation and analysis findings and recommendations that are not consistently professional, effective, clear, and logical, or that contain errors in use of grammar, punctuation, or spelling that distract from the message.	Communicates evaluation and analysis in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.	Communicates evaluation and analysis findings and recommendations that are professional, effective, and insightful; the content is clear, logical, and persuasive; and grammar, punctuation, and spelling are without errors.
Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.	Does not integrate relevant sources to support arguments; does not correctly format citations and references using current APA style.	Cites sources that lack relevance or integrates them poorly, or formats citations or references incorrectly.	Integrates relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.	Integrates relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style. Citations are free from all errors.

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Answer preview…………

The analysis of the Federal systems is important as there is an assessment of the problems faced in coordination and the different costs incurred. The productivity of the systems is enhanced where there is access to the health records and the management of the accessibility process. The healthcare dashboard helps in tracking the performance of the organization and the assessment of the performance that creates the need to visualize the data in the industry and the comparison of the metrics based on the federal laws. St. Stephens hospital has a capacity of 100 beds and the environment that the hospital serve is characterized by low-income levels. The hospital focuses on the treatment of cancer patients and this reaches out to the population that is not in a position to afford the expensive type of treatment. The population that the hospital serves is diverse and this is important in helping to serve the needs of the community………

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