1. Explore the HI field and generate goals for the future: your goals for their first five years post-graduation; vision of your ultimate role in the field; the challenges you anticipate; and the tools/skills you will use to meet those challenges. 1. Describe your goals for the future (short and long-term). 2. Find an example of a role or job that is of interest to you or would meet your future HI goals. You can use a variety of Internet sources and printed materials to locate example roles, including LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, professional associations such as HIMSS and AMIA, and job advertisements in the local press. Consider these categories of health informatics: 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. • ▪ Data Science ▪ Consumer and Mobile Health ▪ Population/Public Health ▪ Leadership ▪ Research What are the competencies you have developed throughout the program that you think will help you find a job in that HI category? Is there any specific knowledge or skill that you developed that you see as being particularly valuable for this type of job? How do these competencies you have from the program translate to the actual requirements for this job? (Optional) Imagine you are preparing a cover letter to submit your resume for this job. What would you include to convey your competencies? (Optional) Imagine you are preparing for a job interview for that job, how might you revise work you did for the HI program to help you “sell” yourself to a prospective employer? If you had to present a “passion project” during the job interview process, how would you build on your work to connect what you did in the HI program to the requirements the employer is seeking? Summarize how you think the MSHI will apply to the work you expect to will do. For your first post, please reply to this starter thread. For subsequent posts, you may feel free to reply to any of your peers posts. 2. Job title: Product Manager COLLAPSE In the MSHI program our 537 course has been updated and is now titled Product Management. This is becoming a more used job title and it is very applicable to our work and to each of the areas of concentration in HI. In Leadership, we might have a product or portfolio of products for which we are acocuntable. Consumer Mobile Health may develop a product such as a mobile app, health literacy tookkit, remote device. This Davenport article discusses data or analytic products. There are many employers who might have product manager positions. Have you thought about how the HI work you might do could be an HI product or considered a Product Manager position? Below are examples from 2 product manager positions recently advertised on a job board: Product Manager – Pharmaceutical • • Lead the development of one or more product strategies, integrating them into a longterm roadmap, and set priorities for product capabilities and features in response to business needs, IT architecture, product deployment and release. • Proactively monitor and maintain product-related end-to-end customer/business experiences and influence relevant stakeholders to deliver successful product releases. • Partner with peers within IT to drive continuous improvement of service processes, user experiences and application optimization. • Manage the key relationships between the business stakeholders and IT to deliver key business opportunities and outcomes and drive continuous delivery of value employing agile IT lifecycle management from product prototyping, development, optimizations, and renewals to product terminations. Product Manager – Consumer Healthcare • • Design and drive the patient facing solutions that are a central part of our change management solution for hospital systems. The goal: strengthen the relationship providers have with their patients and better empower patients to be active participants in their healthcare. • Own product roadmap and priorities across the full product lifecycle, from requirements gathering and product execution to continuous improvement and growth, along with the business plan for your product. • Define product strategy, leveraging creativity, deep understanding of healthcare provider pain points, needs, market trends and competitive landscape. • Act as a liaison to multiple cross-functional stakeholder teams, including Clinical, UX, Engineering, Business Development, Legal, Finance and Regulatory. • Drive diverse collaborations and partnerships, serving as the external and internal point of contact for key partners. • Manage complex schedules that involve both internal and external teams, setting priorities to drive rapid execution. Davenport_Why Your Company Needs Data-Product Managers_HBR 2022.pdf Davenport, T. (2022). Why Your Company Needs Data Product Managers. HBR. https://hbr.org/2022/10/why-your-company-needs-data-product-managers.