6 Essential Data Analyst Skills for Your Healthcare Organization презентация

enterprise data warehouse (EDW) as the foundation of their analytics strategy to improve their care delivery and cost.
But you need more than a solid software foundation.

To fully leverage the EDW investment, you need to have the right people with the right skills—strong healthcare data analyst skills.

directly interact with an EDW. They’ll never look for trends by querying a database, write reports or analyze data.
Someone else will actually pull data from the EDW, analyze it, and then produce a report. These people are producers.
And the people that receive these reports can be classified as consumers.

to invest millions of dollars and multiple years into a data warehouse and still have dissatisfied consumers.
If the team lacks the skills to manage and leverage an EDW, it can create real problems for a health system’s enterprise-wide analytics strategy.

are six skills needed among staff members (either analysts or architects) tasked with analytics.
Structured query language
Export, transform, and load (ETL)
Data modeling
Data analysis
Business intelligence (BI) reporting
Telling the story of the visualizations

member needs to be able to talk directly to and manipulate databases through structured query language (SQL).
Highly experienced data analysts should also bring skills with these kinds of toolsets:

Microsoft Access GUI

Crystal Reports

A business intelligence (BI) tool

data expert needs to be able to perform export, transform, and load (ETL) processes. Simply put, you need to take data from one system and put it into another.
In an EDW, a user pulls data from disparate systems (e.g., EHRS, finance, human resources) that don’t talk to one another.
This movement of data is done through the ETL process.

fancy way to say that you write code that models real-world processes and workflows.
Consider the needs for a hospital admission process:
Patient demographic data
Insurance information
Patient clinical history
Admitting diagnosis
Attending physician
Other as-needed data

needs to be able to make sense of the data once it is in the EDW.
A good analyst using complex thinking around set theory and analysis through SQL, can extract pertinent insights and drive cost and quality improvements.

team member needs to be able to present data in a way that is intuitive to nontechnical users.
The visual representation must be simple to interpret by a lay audience. This skill separates an average analyst from a stellar one.

visualizations

The analytics team member must be able to effectively interpret and transmit the stories embedded in the data.
BI reporting gives contextual meaning in bits and pieces, or a micro view. Telling the story means providing a logical flow that pulls together a coherent story―a big picture view.

two models:
Generalist model
Specialist model
Specialists tend to focus on their particular skillset where data architect and analysts within the generalist staffing model may support a wider range of functionality on process improvement teams.

of these skills within the team.
Both generalist and specialist staffing models can work as long as:
The skill is covered with a high degree of expertise
Coordination and handoffs between technical team members are seamless.

skills skills will help any organization get the most value out of their EDW.
Turning data into actionable information is what good analytics is all about: unlocking data to drive meaningful, sustainable change.

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6 Essential Data Analyst Skills for Your Healthcare Organization

John Wadsworth joined Health Catalyst in September 2011 as a senior data architect. Prior to Catalyst, he worked for Intermountain Healthcare and for ARUP Laboratories as a data architect. John has a Master of Science degree in biomedical informatics from the University of Utah, School of Medicine.