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Albert Marinez, Chief Analytics Officer, Cleveland Clinic

Albert Marinez, Chief Analytics Officer, Cleveland Clinic

Describe your career to date

Over the past 20 years, I have developed my career in healthcare data and analytics, starting as an analytics developer and quickly advancing to lead a data warehouse team before being responsible for the analytics strategy for AdventHealth Central Florida.

My journey has included significant roles in startups, where I notably co-founded one, and leadership of global teams. Currently, I am the Chief Analytics Officer at Cleveland Clinic, a premier healthcare system recognized globally as the second top-ranking institution. This role allows me to leverage my extensive experience to drive innovations in healthcare analytics and outcomes.

Prior roles have included Chief Analytics Officer at Intermountain, a large integrated healthcare delivery organization in Utah and ranked as a top five innovative organization and Global Vice President of Analytics at Swisslog Healthcare, a global pharmacy automation company.

How are you developing the data literacy of your organization, including the skills of your data teams and of your business stakeholders?

We have a robust data literacy and engagement strategy which includes a curriculum that walks through our existing assets, ongoing training and education for our advanced tools, and a community of practice for our analytics team members in the organization. We invest robustly in ups killing our team members through conferences, formalized training from our vendor partners, and internal sessions. We also host an annual Analytics Summit attended by 300-500 of our stakeholders that support the data literacy of our key business stakeholders.

What role do you play in building and delivering conventional artificial intelligence solutions, including machine learning models? Are you also involved in your organization’s adoption of generative AI?

I develop, collaborate, and refine our artificial intelligence (AI) strategy. The data and AI teams currently report to me, but I work collaboratively with our research organization, IT organization, and other innovators across our organization in developing solutions that empower them and democratize the power of AI.

The overarching strategy is developed with our Digital Executive team of which I am a member. I am directly involved in the organization’s adoption of generative AI (genAI). We have deployed an internal version of ChatGPT, are engaged in road show sessions, as well as facilitating visioning sessions that look to materialize and activate ideas that leverage genAI and other technologies.

What are the key challenges to your data function that you are facing as its leader?

As the inaugural Chief Analytics Officer at Cleveland Clinic, I have uncovered several data challenges in our organization. One of the largest challenges for us is our highly decentralized analytics databases that are prolific across the organization. They include hundreds of databases, tens of thousands of tables, and a half dozen tools that populate those data models from dozens of teams. All these groups use different approaches, but the business problems largely overlap. This has created a data quality challenge across the organization as metrics are reported up.

As the Data and Analytics leader, I am implementing new tools and technology to migrate our current outdated framework to a modern one. I created a consistent and common data model that is shareable and putting in the ability to share innovations and business logic that is being created across these federated teams.

Albert Marinez
has been included in:

100 Brands 2023 (USA)
100 Brands 2024 (USA)