Welcome to “Using Technology for Quality and Evaluation”

We're excited that you're here and can't wait to talk to you about different technologies we use in our every day work in quality improvement and evaluation.

First, we'd like to get to know you a little bit better. Complete the survey by following this link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TFAIntro

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Casey L. Allen, MSMeghan Kirley, BS

The Children’s Home of CincinnatiCincinnati, OH

October 29, 2013

Who are we?

Casey L Allen Meghan Kirley

Education

BA in Psychology HonorsMS in Experimental Psychology

BS in Psychology & Sociology

Position Quality & Evaluation AnalystMeasure program effectiveness

Evaluation Coordinator Measure staff effectiveness

Technology

MS Office, databases, statistical packages

MS Office, databases

Who are you...?

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Using Technology for Quality and Evaluation

What is Quality?

What is Evaluation?

What is Technology?

Exceeding expectations or standards

Assessing the strengths and weaknesses

Using knowledge to obtain a specific outcome

So, this is an example of technology…

What are we going to talk about?Strengths & Barriers of using technologyUsing technology you already haveUsing the InternetUsing powerful technology

Objectives

1. Identify strengths and barriers in using technology for quality and evaluation. 

2. Participants will learn or review how to use MS Word, MS Excel, and Adobe Acrobat. 

3. Learn or review Internet resources. 4. Introduced to SurveyMonkey. 5. Introduced to MS Access

Barriers

Characteristic

Barrier

Communication Information can be overloaded or incorrect.Technology can create communication breakdown.

Depersonalization

Technology replaces peopleA technology’s outcome can replace a person.

Security Too much security impedes technologyToo little security puts others at risk

Operation Cost of operating and maintenanceCost of paying

Storage Can be expensive Can be lostCan be damaged

Barriers And some times… things just don’t work

Strengths

Characteristic Strength

Efficiency Time managementFacilitates communication

Accuracy / Precision Products, outcomes, results are more precise

Operations Technology creates jobs

Security Securing information, things, and people

Storage Storing information is cheap, accessible, and portable.Machines are shrinking.

Storage

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18” x 31” x 60” 2.3” x 0.8” x 0.4”

With storage, less is more.

3 GB, $8

Storage

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Storage can be expensive, but it’s getting cheaper and it’s readily available.

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Maximizing Technology’s Strengths for Quality and Evaluation

A provider completes a behavior inventory on one of his clients. The provider enters this inventory in an electronic form. The provider is able to receive a graph depicting her client’s behavior change overtime.

How does the use of technology Create quality information?Create information for evaluation?

Before we leave PowerPoint...Microsoft Office

ExcelWordPowerPointAccess

Adobe AcrobatSurveyMonkeyThe Internet

Let’s get out of here! Using Technology for Q & E.docx