The Role and Responsibilities of Data Professionals in Healthcare Organization

Healthcare organizations are increasingly embracing data-driven approaches to enhance patient care, reduce costs, comply with regulations, and drive innovation through data analytics. Such approaches require collaboration between data professionals. Having data professionals such as data scientists, data analysts, data engineers, and machine learning engineers together and managing them to work on a given task is the new challenge for healthcare organization that usually employs domain experts who have data skills at the beginner to intermediate level. Such a practice might work on a small scale. However, for the enterprise level, the large scale of data in cloud environment requires much more than just an intermediate level. This article describes the role and responsibilities of data professionals to contribute to a healthcare organization with illustrative examples from an analytic project. This article would guide healthcare organizations to acquire the right data professionals to the right tasks.