When people ask you what EMR means, how many hospitals are in the area, or what’s the best way to understand your patients, you tell them “google it.” But when they ask you how to do something—track your heart rate, book an appointment, pay bills, consult with a doctor online—you say “you know, there’s an app for that.” Because most likely, there is. There’s an app for almost everything these days—and the healthcare industry is no exception.

In recent years, there’s been an increasing demand for data scientists left and right, across industries and across departments. In the same vein, companies are getting more and more data than they know what to do with. In fact, according to IBM, 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. To put this influx to good use, organizations are turning to data scientists.