An Analyst PerspectiveBojay Hansen, CHIM

Current Role• Strategic Analyst at North York General Hospital (NYGH)

– Program focus in the Department of Medicine.

• Work collaboratively with staff, physicians and program leaders providing evidence based decision making by leveraging health information.

• Relationships:– Know your client/know your business– Become a part of the clinical teams– Attend committee and project meetings

• Research:– Literature review (remain current - NGM,JAMA,BMJ,)– Participate in productions of white papers and research projects.– Remain current on all thing HIM/DS (CIHI, UMNO, eCHIMA)

• Development– Technical proficiencies in program languages (SQL,VB,DB2,etc.)– Using various reporting tools (Cognos BI, Crystal, SAS) and mapping

software (GIS)– Presentations, Executive Summaries, and Business Cases

• Collaboration– Work with local and regional partners to develop and participate in

standardize reporting and special projects– Work within the DS/HIM team to achieve internal goals and support

broader corporate projects

Education / Certification ParticipationMotivation / Aspiration

Career Path

Health Information Specialist

Program Support Partner

Strategic Health Care Analyst

Growth and Opportunities

• Decision Support Specific– Decisions and funding increasingly linked to health information and performance

• Increase use of the Heath Record as the billing record– Near Real time / Predictive Analytics (see the future)– Tell a story with data (go beyond the number)

• Degree, Masters, Advanced Certification– Mathematics & Statistics– Finance– IT – Research/Publication– Project Management / Quality Improvement / Risk Management

• Increase Visibility, Understanding and intake of the Profession– We need more HIM’s stepping up into Leadership roles– We need to expand our membership to integrate more multidisciplinary professionals – HIM should not be found by accident– **Between 6,200 – 12,200 More HI & HIM Professionals Needed by 2019