As data science in healthcare begins to deluge systems, CDOs can help healthcare systems stay compliant and productive. With doctors and nurses focused on clinical care and CIOs busy setting up servers and installing software, the emerging role of the chief data officer is becoming more necessary.These healthcare data scientists help foster innovation, manage compliance with regulations and drive down costs in a value-based care environment. Their job is to make sense of financial, clinical, regulatory and legal data.In fact, research firm Gartner reports that 90 percent of large companies will hire a CDO by the end of 2019, many of them at healthcare organizations. The responsibilities for healthcare data reporting and analysis that would typically fall to a CIO or CTO are being handed to the CDO, says Nathan Patrick Taylor, a co-chair for the American Health Information Management Association data analytics practice council and director of data science and analytics at Symphony Post Acute Network, a provider of short-term post-hospital rehabilitation, long-term care and assisted living.By hiring CDOs, companies can prevent CIOs and CTOs from getting overwhelmed, Taylor suggests.The CDO role takes that data component away from them and frees them up to do what I think IT should be doing, which is setting the underlying infrastructure to be able to do the analytics component, Taylor says.

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