How do you enable analytics in healthcare?By building the right skills profile

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The gaps

The results

The solution

Only 39 percent of organizations recruit staff equally proficient in both IT and business-orientated skills

Current skills profile that organizations recruitIT literate

Healthcare or Life Science literate

Business oriented

Highly numerate/analytical

Balance of numerate and business oriented skills

Build capacity with the right people to extract valuable intelligence from data.

For example, IBM is teaming up with about 300 academic institutions to offer a masters degree in business analytics

In the future, analytic staff will be mainly distributed in a centralized function with some decentralized specialty analytics

Where will analytics staff be distributed in the organization in the next 3-5 years?

Hybrid. Some centralized analytics; some decentralized specialty analytics

Centralized in a business analytics function

Decentralized into specialized business or clinical areas

Centralized for business and decentralized for clinical area

The problem? “The biggest barrier to adoption is human capital . . .”

How big? “. . . 100,000 data scientists needed in the next 3 years . . . ”

The solution? “. . . hire inquisitive, generically smart people who are [facile] with manipulating data and thinking outside the box.”U.S. healthcare professional

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