Why is healthcare data so messy for business analysts?

Healthcare data may be the reason I started this blog.

I have been a business analyst at a hospital for nearly three years now. 

Healthcare is fascinating. The data — it’s just challenging. 

While knowing Excel was important at my first job in retail, my healthcare gig really scaled up the need. I became a self-service database administrator/data preparer/analyst.

The need to improve set me on a quest to write about Excel, and here I am.

Anyway, I’d like to write more about Excel and healthcare, because I know firsthand how tricky it is.

Ultimately I’d like to launch a course on this topic. 

So I’d like to know, if you work in healthcare: What’s tricky with your data? What are your pain points?

Thanks so much, and have a great holiday weekend.