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What does the Industrial Revolution have to do with data literacy? Perhaps you envision billowing smokestacks on top of 18th century factories and poorly cared for workers laboring under intense heat and physical exhaustion. Maybe the atrocities from Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle come to mind. The Industrial Revolution, however, is constructed of four major phases, and the fourth phase is still ongoing. Over the past 200 years, the health care industry has been forced to adapt to technological advances and new methodologies of conducting business. Perhaps not surprisingly, the success of the fourth and current phase of the Industrial Revolution hinges on data literacy. Data literacy is essential for health care employees to know how to work with data and have a clear understanding of what data communicates. Read more about data literacy and its importance for health care in this thought-provoking piece from Accordant’s Debbie Ferguson, CFRE: https://ow.ly/CrAK50T8o6y #healthcare #philanthropy #dataliteracy #IndustrialRevolution

Health Care, Data Literacy and the Industrial Revolution

Health Care, Data Literacy and the Industrial Revolution

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