Earning Criteria

• The earner’s healthcare organization must currently subscribe to the Vizient Clinical Data Base.
• Submit an application to demonstrate experience and readiness for acceptance to the program.
• Secure an executive sponsor within your organization to support your learning and application of knowledge.
• Attend a three-day launch event with peers, accompanied by your executive sponsor, which details the five crucial competencies of a data scientist.
• Participate in five bi-weekly case study webinars related to quality and accountability metrics.
• Lead one case study presentation, based on your assigned metric, practicing the five crucial competencies of a data scientist as you share your findings.
• Observe a quality and accountability insight presentation with Vizient faculty.
• Meet with a Vizient executive mentor weekly throughout the 15-week program to enhance learning and apply knowledge to your capstone project.
• Complete two sessions with a performance coach to refine presentation skills.
• Present your capstone project, focused on how your healthcare organization can improve its quality and accountability score, to faculty and executive sponsors for real time feedback and discussion. In this presentation you fully demonstrate your newly acquired skills in the crucial competencies: healthcare proficiency, understanding variation, curiosity, problem solving and storytelling.