Conclusion: What is the future of Excel for healthcare analysts?http://georgejmount.com/excelforhealthcare

What The Patient as CEO means for analysts – and their

spreadsheets!

Unprevented catastrophes Regularly scheduled maintenance

Hospitals: Warehouse Network• Less focus on physical inventory,

facilities, machines, etc• More on big, disperse, human-

generated data

Patient : CEO :: Analyst : Facilitator?

“How accessible are doctors? Are we deploying the latest technology to the community? Are we keeping in touch with patients via social media to promote preventive medicine?Instead of fielding CEO requests, the new analyst must now facilitate the patient to be her own CEO.”

-George Mount, “If the Patient is CEO, Then What’s the Analyst?”

How this changes the way we use Excel

Even bigger, messier data! (Too big to store in Excel.)

Monitoring quality = continued use of dashboards

FTE Management – Even more moving pieces!

Data cleaning could go away, but will probably get worse.

This is not the end for Excel!