Business Chief North America June 2020

Hutchins has been interested in
healthcare since his early days, when
his mother worked in a hospital radiology
department. During vacations
and on weekends he gained valuable
experience, learning about managing
care from the ground up. “I liked the
idea of being able to help people,” he
says, “and over the years I have had
amazing opportunities to get involved
in new areas.”
A variety of roles followed, from
working in back-end operations
scheduling appointments and coding
visits from physicians’ notes, to
learning how to build databases and
integrating budgeting systems, until
he was heading up reporting and
analytics, which led to a role as an
IT director. His duties grew untill he
was responsible for building out new
facilities when practices expanded,
and for big enterprise analytics. This
eventually led to a role where he was
responsible for extending an enterprise
data warehouse function while
integrating three different data warehouse
environments, and helping to
lead implementation of a new consolidated
EMR. A year or two into this role he
1997
Year founded
$12.5bn
Revenue in
US dollars
72,000
Number of
employees
was blessed with the opportunity
to join Northwell Health.
Over the course of his over
20-year career in healthcare he’s
seen how data and analytics have
increased in importance. “It’s only
really been in the last decade or so
that companies in the US have had
a chief data officer,” he says. “It’s a
result of recognising the important
role that data and analytics play,
in helping you to make decisions and
in developing effective strategies
that not only support your business,
but improve and grow it.”
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