HAHealthcare Data Analyst
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Healthcare Data Analyst

By the numbers
Typical pay
$120,230 / yr
Education to start
Bachelor's degree
Future demand
+33.5% by 2034
People in this job
262K
Figures shown for ·closest of 3 O*NET occupations
The work
A day, hour by hour
08:00
Data triage

Scan overnight reports for broken pipelines or missing data feeds.

08:25
Team standup

Sync with analysts and IT. Flag blocked queries, confirm today's priorities.

08:45
Data cleaning

Hunt down duplicate records and null values before any analysis can start.

10:00
SQL deep dive

Write queries against the EHR database to pull last quarter's readmission records.

11:30
Signal check

Spike in ER wait times looks alarming — real trend or a data entry glitch?

13:00
Dashboard build

Wire new quality-score metrics into the clinical team's live Tableau dashboard.

14:30
Stakeholder briefing

Translate the readmission findings into plain language for the nursing director.

15:30
Compliance review

Check that the shared report can't be reverse-engineered to identify any patient.

16:15
Routine reporting

Package weekly hospital cost, wait-time, and quality scores; send to leadership.

Things you do
  • Dig into patient and hospital data to spot hidden trends.
  • Build dashboards so doctors and managers can see key numbers fast.
  • Write SQL queries to pull records from massive medical databases.
  • Clean up messy, incomplete data before any real analysis can start.
  • Translate confusing charts into plain findings for non-technical staff.
Decisions you’ll make
  • Is this data pattern a real clinical signal, or just messy data?
  • Should I flag this finding to the clinical team now, or dig deeper first?
  • Am I oversimplifying this analysis to make it easier for stakeholders to understand?
  • Does sharing this result risk exposing a patient's identity, even indirectly?
  • Is this metric actually measuring what the doctors think it's measuring?
Education Pathways · how you get there
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