When I first started working with healthcare businesses, one thing struck me right away: there is tons of data, but most of it is a mess. It’s usually stored in separate systems, in different formats, and is hard to aggregate and analyze.
Getting this kind of data into shape takes more than just loading it into a database and writing a few queries. In this article, I’ll walk through some of the real challenges in building healthcare data analytics solutions based on my experience and suggest ways to overcome them.