Healthy Outcomes: Empowering healthcare leaders with data-driven decision making

On this episode of Healthy Outcomes, our host Mark Ross interviews Baker Tilly’s Heather Herc, director, and Brad Gummig, senior manager. Together, they discuss the importance of data in healthcare and how healthcare leaders can utilize it to drive data-driven decision making. 

 Specific topics of discussion include:  

• Benefits of cultivating a data driven culture  
• Key activities successful healthcare systems are executing to effectively analyze their business and improve performance 
• Challenges smaller healthcare systems may face when executing a data analytics strategy 
• Characteristics / examples of good data analytics  
• Other areas, outside of expenses, that healthcare systems are pursuing to improve performance 
• The process of selecting analytics solutions that will help to maximize ROI  
• Utilization of data and its importance for service line analysis 

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Brad Gummig

Brad is a senior manager with extensive healthcare industry consulting experience. With industry experience ranges across the provider and payer sectors, Brad has served as a subject matter expert on large scale implementations and initiatives to launch, optimize, and maintain business and technology initiatives within some of the largest integrated delivery networks and provider systems in the country. Prior to moving to Baker Tilly in April of 2019, Brad spent nearly five years at Strata Decision Technology working closely with large healthcare systems such as Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland Clinic, Advocate Aurora and others across the country to implement and optimize clinical and financial analysis software applications.