What is Healthcare Analytics?

I fell into healthcare analytics by accident; I took a job collecting medical records on-site at various doctor offices, hospitals, and clearing houses; I wound up learning roughly 35 different EHR/EMR systems(Epic, Cerner, etc.) and once COVID hit I was able to continue working remotely. I was retrieving > 15 charts per hour and a supervisor saw my potential; I wound up in a pilot capacity program where eight of us would assist in forecasting how much volume we had vs. how many remote processors we would need along with building a credential database within Excel(and then weekly upkeeping to ensure the processor's credentials didn't lapse to prevent retrieval). This eventually led to an operational analyst role where I was responsible for >3 million medical records within 17 states for a healthcare client using SQL to download data and then updating databases in Excel. I was laid off back in late summer 2023, but then found another remote healthcare analyst role at a company whose clients are pharmaceutical companies.

I’ve had two internships working with healthcare data and it made me realize how little I know. There’s so many moving parts in healthcare that someone can make an entire career just focusing on one part: Population Health, Med Econ, etc. I’m actually in the process of deep diving into some benefits/cost analytics right now, and this video series came out at the right time to supplement ! Looking forward to this series Alex! And awesome beard 🤩 P.S: to anyone interested in healthcare analytics get ready for a WORLD of acronyms. The acronyms NEVER END. the ACRONYMS have ACRONYMS.

Thank you so much for posting this video. I'm a medical coder, and I always wanted to get into healthcare analytics. This video came just in time.

Many thanks, Alex, for talking about healthcare analytics 👏👏. Can you make a tutorial using data from an EHR system (not real data, of course) and give us an overview of what KPIs or questions a healthcare analyst is required to answer? So that people who haven't worked with EHR before get an idea about how the process goes.

Was looking into this days ago and he dropped a video just in time

Ooh, cool! Now I can combine my nursing experience AND my love of data!

I am excited to start my journey toward becoming a Health Analyst this year. With my ongoing learning in SAS and analytics, I am eager to build skills in healthcare data analysis and contribute to improving healthcare decisions through data.

Alex you're my data analyst hero, thank you so much for always giving out quality content in a simple way

Thank you for this video i’ve been studying In healthcare analytics for a year but i was still a but loss but you definitely made it clearer

Sometimes a small step changes everything—just scheduled my visit at a top-notch clinic