Healthcare Analytics Engineer Handbook

This handbook aims to bridge the gap between healthcare domain knowledge and techincal analytics skills -- something I wish I had when starting my journey in this field.

I welcome your contributions, feedback, and suggestions as we continue to build this resource together. Whether you're a seasoned healthcare analytics professional or just starting your journey, there's a place for you in this community!

Getting started

I like the Data Roles Continuum created by Zack Wilson. For comprehensive data engineering resources, his Data Engineer Handbook is excellent.

It's interesting to note that while many healthcare analytics professionals are titled "data analyts" or "data scientists", they frequently perform tasks fall under "data engineering." This is why many end up functioning as "analytics engineers" in practice.

Across all fields, professionals typically need three essential capabilities: business knowledge, soft skills, and hard skills.

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Table of contents

Section I: Business Knowledge

• Chapter 1: Healthcare System Fundamentals
  • Healthcare Ecosystem Overview
  • Key Stakeholders (Providers, Payers, Patients, Regulators)
  • Healthcare Business Models
  • Revenue Cycle Management
• Chapter 2: Healthcare Data Landscape
  • Types of Healthcare Data
  • Healthcare Data Standards (HL7, FHIR, SNOMED CT, ICD, CPT)
  • Data Governance in Healthcare
• Chapter 3: Healthcare Analytics Use Cases
  • Provider Lookup
  • Value-based Care

Section II: Hard Skills

• Chapter 4: Healthcare Data Architecture
• Chapter 5: Data Modeling for Healthcare
• Chapter 6: SQL for Healthcare Analytics
• Chapter 7: Visualization for Healthcare Data
• Chapter 8: Advanced Analytics in Healthcare

Section III: Soft Skills

• Chapter 9: Collaboration with Healthcare Stakeholders
• Chapter 10: Healthcare Analytics Project Management
• Chapter 11: Translating Business Questions to Analytics
• Chapter 12: Ethical Consideration in Healthcare Analytics

Appendices

• Blogs
• Books
• Courses
• Guiding Principles
• Journals
• Newsletters
• Open Data
• Projects
• Repos
• Summer Internship
• Websites

Blogs

• An Introduction to Claims Data
• Google Health Health AI Developer Foundations
• Thoughs on Healthcare Markets and Technology

Books

• Analytics and AI for Healthcare: Book Series
  • Digital Health: A Primer
  • Dimensions of Intelligent Analytics for Smart Digital Health Solutions
  • Translational Application of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: - A Textbook
  • Data Driven Science for Clinically Actionable Knowledge in Diseases
  • Data Analysis in Medicine and Health using R
  • Explainable AI in Healthcare: Unboxing Machine Learning for Biomedicine
• Clinical Intelligence: The Big Data Analytics Revolution in Healthcare: A Framework for Clinical and Business Intelligence
• Clinical Research Methods for Surgeons
• Geek Doctor: Life as Healthcare CIO
• Health Economics and Policy
• Healthcare Analytics Made Simple: Techniques in healthcare computing using machine learning and Python
• Healthcare Big Data Draft in Chinese
• Healthcare Data Analytics
• Healthcare Data Analytics: Primary Methods and Related Insights
• Interpreting the Medical Literature
• Multivariable Analysis: A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Public Health Researchers
• Practical Biostatistics for Medical and Health Sciences
• Reproducible Medical Research with R
• SAS Data Analytic Development: Dimensons of Software Quality
• SAS Programming with Medicare Administrative Data
• Study Design and Statistical Analysis: A Practical Guide for Clinicians
• The CMIO Survival Guide: A Handbook for Chief Medical Information Officers and Those Who Hire Them
• The Project Manager's Guide to Health Information Technology Implementation
• The Truth about Health Care: Why Reform is Not Working in America
• Veridical Data Science

Companies

• Google Health AI Developer Foundations

Courses

• AI in Health Care
• Cleaning Medical Data in R
• Machine Learning for Healthcare
• Health Policy 101
• HealthR
• Regression Modeling Strategies Short Course

Guiding Principles

• Good Machine Learning Practice for Medical Device Development: Guiding Principles

Journals

• Medicare & Medicaid Research Review (MMRR)
• Health Care Financing Review (HCFR)

Newsletters

• Health Innovation
• Healthcare Brew
• Learn Analytics Engineering
• Medical Futurist
• The Analytics Engineering Roundup

Open Data

• Care Compare

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Open Technology

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Public Data Sets

• Dr. William Dupont's data used in biomedical research

• Global Health Observatory

• ImmPort Shared Data

• Patient Matching

• UCI Machine Learning Repository

  • Medical Informatics Operating Room Vitals and Events Repository

Projects

• The TUVA project
  • The Tuva Project is a large collection of tools organized into many GitHub repos that transform raw healthcare data into quality-tested data that is ready for analysis and machine learning. At the center of the project is the Tuva data model, a standard data model designed for healthcare analytics. These docs describe how to install, use, and contribute to the Tuva Project.

Organizations

• Health Care Cost Institute

Repos

• CDC
• CMS
• Healthcare-Analytics
  • Hospital admission data was analyzed to accurately predict the patient’s Length of Stay at the time of admit so that the hospitals can optimize resources and function better.

Summer Internship

• Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program

YouTube

• Building A Data Engineering Project - Starting A Data Analytics Project With "Real" Healthcare Data

Websites

• Learn about CMS data
• TheCodingDocs
• Michigan ADRC Data Sharing Hub

Socla Media Accounts

Here's the mostly comprehensive list of data engineering creators:

Name	YouTube	LinkedIn	X/Twitter	Instagram	TikTok
Chad You		Chad You	Chad You
Andrea Hobby		Andrea Hobby
Madison Schott	Madison Schott
Tristan Handy	Tristan Handy
Benjamin Rogojan	Seattle Data Guy	Benjamin Rogojan	SeattleDataGuy
Zack Wilson	Data with Zach	Zach Wilson	Zach Morris Wilson