September 1, 2022

Episode 22: Ethics and Health Insurance data with Onyinye Daniel from Highmark Health

In this episode Onyinye Daniel, Vice President, Data & Analytics Strategy at Highmark Health, talks about her career in healthcare from the research side, to working at a hospital and now on the payer side in health insurance. Listen to the episode to learn how Onyinye’s background in health policy and bioethics has shaped her career.

 

0:00 Intro 

0:34 What Onyinye does at a VP at Highmark Health 

3:28 What data does Highmark have? 

5:41 How does Highmark use their data? 

8:03 What software does Highmark use to analyze data 

11:16 The challenge of building a data science team 

12:16 Professional development for data scientists 

14:39 Onyinye’s career path 

17:13 Ethics in data science 

19:05 Differences of working in different healthcare roles 

22:20 Resources for new data scientists 

22:55 Advice for new data scientists 

24:10 Outro 

 

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