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Big Data is a buzzword in many industries these days including healthcare.\u00a0 What is data literacy and how does it apply and impact healthcare? \u00a0According to MIT and Dalhousie University, data literacy is the ability to collect, manage, evaluate, and apply data in a critical manner.\u00a0 Though, most individuals didn\u2019t go to school to be data scientists, statisticians, computer scientists etc.\u00a0 In fact, most people do not consider themselves to be data literate.<\/p>\n
In the healthcare field where we are bombarded with all kinds of data, \u2013 laboratory and test results, vitals, costs, patient EHRs, and much more \u2013 it is absolutely important for the healthcare industry to maximize its usage of this critical data for the betterment of the healthcare field as a whole. \u00a0How do we solve data illiteracy? The key is to understand that organizations and individuals need to actively buy in and embrace the data revolution, especially leadership which can help set the standard for the culture of the organization to make good use of data. At the individual level, people need to be honest with oneself and address one\u2019s own weaknesses and fill in the knowledge gaps they have for data literacy \u2013 i.e., the ability to read, work with, analyze, and argue with data.\u00a0 Once, individuals can understand their data literacy weaknesses, then, they can begin to understand how they can improve their respective data skillsets.<\/p>\n
In February of 2022, the NNLM Region 5 will be offering a course on data literacy called \u201cData Literacy for the Busy Librarian\u201d.\u00a0 This 2-week Moodle course is designed for the beginner and the busier librarian in mind who has an interest in improving their data literacy skillset.\u00a0 Registration for \u201cData Literacy for the Busy Librarian\u201d is open now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Big Data is a buzzword in many industries these days including healthcare.\u00a0 What is data literacy and how does it apply and impact healthcare? \u00a0According to MIT and Dalhousie University, data literacy is the ability to collect, manage, evaluate, and apply data in a critical manner.\u00a0 Though, most individuals didn\u2019t go to school to be… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,54,5],"tags":[73,338,105],"class_list":["post-19880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-data-science","category-training-education","tag-data-literacy","tag-data-literacy-for-the-busy-librarian","tag-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19880"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19886,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19880\/revisions\/19886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}