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HDAA Insights:  Advancing healthcare analytics education

HDAA's mission is to improve patient outcomes through the intelligent application of analytics to healthcare data. An important part of that mission is to promote our profession to students and others considering a career change.

Through our HDAA Insights webinars series, we discuss the challenges and rewards of healthcare analytics, the kinds of questions we answer, step through a typical work day, and more. Unlike most of our recorded content, HDAA Insights is available to members and non-members alike. Links to the recordings are at the bottom of this page. Note: the original intent was to post recordings on YouTube, but we've been unable to recruit a video editor. If you'd like to help out, please email [email protected].

Insights launched in 2022 in partnership with Rutgers Business School, is proud to announce an online series introducing the profession of healthcare analytics to those interested in the career. Over the course of ten weeks, nearly two dozen HDAA members discussed what it means to work in healthcare analytics.  

After a hiatus in 2023, we hope to revive the series this year. If you have a topic you'd like us to cover, please email our Program Director at [email protected]

 

If you’re interested in a healthcare analytics career, or know someone who is, HDAA Insights is for you. Hear from the professionals who actually perform and direct the work. And do the hiring! 

Special thanks for conceiving and helping design this series to Professor David Ding, Assistant Professor and Director of Master of Healthcare Analytics and Intelligence at the Rutgers Business School.

 

Season one episodes

Our panelists represented a cross-section of healthcare provider organizations-- major academic medical centers, large integrated health systems, physician practices and community health organizations. They represent a variety of analytics roles, from chief data officers and analytics managers to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists. 

  • A day in the life. How do healthcare analytics professionals spend their time?  What are the major sources and types of data?  How do engineers and analysts interact with the rest of the organization?
  • How do we use analytics? How do analytics support clinical care, population health management, finance and operations, and research?
  • How do I get hired? What do hiring managers look for on a resume?  What skills – soft and hard – are most valuable?  How does the interview and hiring process work? Recording temporarily unavailable.
  • Challenges and rewards. Why choose a career in healthcare analytics?  What makes analytics in healthcare different than analytics elsewhere?  What are the challenges to producing meaningful information?
  • Industry trends. What topics are most discussed at HDAA?  What are the cutting-edge technologies?  Beyond the technology, what are the critical processes and operating models that require attention?

A huge thank you to the HDAA members who served on our Insights panels in 2022. This program, like any HDAA event, succeeds because of people willing to donate their time and perspectives.

  • Allyson Russell
  • Amy Galick
  • Andrew Figueroa
  • Angela Michael
  • Candice Crawford
  • Christine Kelly-Fisher
  • Dan Ryan
  • Ed Marx
  • Elissa Malcolm
  • Janae Logan
  • Joseph Nahmias
  • Kade Maughan
  • Kristen Dubesky
  • Lanie Esteban
  • Larry Mandelkehr
  • Leslie Kian
  • Lisa Vismara
  • Megan Song
  • Robert Zavaleta
  • Sandhya Chandrasekhar
  • Susan Scott
  • Tim Arnold