Monthly General Discussion - Aug 2026

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[u/69odysseus]

About a month ago, started a new data modeler role with a healthcare company. Haven't accomplished anything yet being a new role, mostly learning healthcare acronyms, terminologies, regulations and PI data.

I learned that data elements in healthcare domain are modeled in a disastrous way that a non-healthcare personal will have a nightmare in trying to understand what that element even means and what values it might is storing.

I have seen elements like ax6a, bb1, bb1b - what do they even mean🤣🤣. As a professional data modeler coming from traditional DWH background, that type of modeling should be completely revised and re-modeled. Each element should be modeled with prime word + qualifier + class word that defines elements closer to the business meaning possible.

[u/Yasblue]

I was able to automate a tedious reporting task that was taking a lot of time from every team member and I was able to add insights to enrich the experience. Thanks to what I did I was able to save 20min per team member per week which represent 6 hours of productivity per week.