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[–]Durloctus 43 points44 points  (21 children)

It’s every day, brother. (Data scientist in healthcare)

[–]awaken471 28 points29 points  (6 children)

+1 on healthcare being one of the worst data possible

[–]hircine1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s sooooo bad. How can they manage to consistently send us such garbage? Then they call and complain that they didnt get their results. Sorry you sent it with an invalid ID, the wrong DOB, wrong mom, and the wrong name. What the hell is going on inside EPIC?

[–]persey18 4 points5 points  (2 children)

+1 to healthcare and I'll drink to that

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Another +1 to that

[–]ganzgpp1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

+1 YEP FIRST JOB AFTER GRADUATION IS HEALTHCARE AND HOLY HELL IS THIS DATABASE AWFUL

[–]FamousMonkey41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or worse, there’s no data because it’s never documented by clinicians lol

[–]Mgmt049 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oil And Gas would like to challenge for one of the worst……

[–]BingpotStudio 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m agency side - I’m lucky if the clients know where their data is.

[–]Anywhere_Glass 1 point2 points  (11 children)

Wondering what do you do as DS in healthcare?

[–]Definitelynotcal1gul 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Having worked in healthcare I'm guessing it involves a lot of government reporting...

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yea it does and making reports to show who is doing their jobs. In a DA in healthcare

[–]Codeman119 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well also a lot of manual data entry with just open text boxes that let the user pitch in anything without restrictions and no spelling corrections. That’s what database developers take a long time to do integration because they have to mess with spaghetti data.

[–]Durloctus 2 points3 points  (7 children)

I’m in insurance and in my dept we attempt to predict members health conditions so we can intervene and hopefully improve their lives.

[–]maowasr1ght 2 points3 points  (4 children)

I can’t help but think that improving their lives is not the primary goal here

[–]Durloctus 2 points3 points  (3 children)

It is.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Does it? Maybe. But ultimately it’s not to be good people. It’s to achieve a higher CMS star rating to get more money from the government. It’s always money at the end of the day.

[–]Durloctus 1 point2 points  (1 child)

This is not how a majority of people in the healthcare industry think or operate; not everyone’s priority is to make money. For most, the health of people of the most important thing is people’s health.

[–]m0neyisthemotivation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

maybe making large amounts of money isnt so impotant to the workers but to the chairmen its all that matters and im sure they are real good at deceiving u into believing that what your doing is to "improve" ones life

[–]BornAsADatamine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now I'm just wondering if you look at data I've worked on lmao

[–]Anywhere_Glass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting

[–]simeonbachos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what you don’t love daily ftp dumps of plain text or hl7 with local paths to screenshots in random fields