Taos
      Transforming Data and Information into Better Healthcare Decisions

Skills and Knowledge 

Organizational behavior, health informatics, statistics/data mining, and healthcare performance measurement.  
 My Passion

  Improve public heath by imrpoving health services.
Some examples of specific deliverables:
  •  Using AHRQ's open source SAS code to create inpatient quality indicators, patient safety indicators, and the prevention quality indicators.
  •  Operationalizting how data from electronic health records can be used for quality improvement.
  • Using data mining and statistical tools such as SAS, JMP, R, Weka, and STATA to clean data element, produce reports, and help decision makers interpret and visualize administrative and clinical data.
  •  Evaluating research questions concerning costs, quality, and access using administrative  hospital data.
  • Use text mining techniques to transform narrative documents into datasets that can be       visualized with statistical models and data mining tools.