From Data to Information to …

Leslie McIntosh, PhD, MPH

https://edgewatertech.wordpress.com

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Health Informatics

Computer Science/IS

Health/Medicine

Analytics/Statistics

Data

Primary

Secondary

Collection

Excel

CDMS

Analyses

Clinician

Statistician

Tools

SPSS

SAS

Located, Consolidated, and Standardized the Data

Built a Tool

Trained Clinicians

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People

Computer Scientists/Developers

Analysts

Clinical Researchers

In the end, we have…

DevelopersAnalystsClinicians

DATA

Data Drivers

Liaisons facilitating the transformation of data to information

to knowledge

Skills

TechnicalStatistical tool (R or SAS, a little SPSS)Scripting language (Python)Writing

DomainElectronic Medical Record

Research

Analytical and Investigative

Big Data Consumable

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Custom Analytics

What’s next