John Wadsworth, from Health Catalyst, has been instrumental in helping organizations improve clinical and operational challenges for decades. He highlights the 5 keys skills informaticists need to drive change with data: 1) Data Query skills 2) Understand Data Movement 3) Understand Data Modeling 4) Ability to Perform Data Analysis and 5) Data Visualization skills. Put those skills on top of a foundation of a solid understanding of how your organization makes money and change management skills and you have all the key ingredients to leading your organization to improve.
