About Us

Since its birth in 2001, the Healthcare Data & Analytics Association has been the place to collaborate with industry professionals, ask and answer questions, share lessons learned, get first-hand validation of vendors' claims, and accelerate adoption of data and analytics to produce better healthcare outcomes and cost improvements for your healthcare system.

Membership is free to employees of healthcare systems and providers, insurance companies, public health groups, government healthcare agencies, and to students pursuing a healthcare analytics career. We are supported entirely by revenue from our annual conference. Click here for membership criteria. 

In the meantime, explore our Engage! menu to get a flavor of what HDAA has to offer. Scroll a little further on this page to learn more about us and the benefits of membership. 

WHAT'S NEW AT HDAA

New Strategy SIG Leader

Chris White replaces Kim Shellenberger as chair.  Many thanks to Kim for her volunteer work getting this group going.  Also a clarification of the scope of this group.  Is it the strategy of analytics deployment or is it using analytics to support an enterprise strategy (think planning).  Turns out it is both, and sometime the intersection.

This is now active, having had its first meeting, and another in upcoming events.

The Pharmacy SIG is coming back! 

We discussed a new chair at the conference roundtable, more to come.  Many thanks to John Valentine for getting this group going, he is passing the torch in order to focus on his Intermountain work.

Snowflake and Fabric SIGs

Big news, we now have a Snowflake SIG.  Members should look in events, which includes a SIG member survey.
We have a Fabric SIG being formed, more to come on future events.

Welcome our new Program Directors

Effective January 1, 2025, Cassie Hertert and Pete Ivers will manage HDAA events, both online and in person. They will be responsible for supporting our special interest groups, conceiving and conducting town halls, helping form conference agendas, as well as maintaining the information on our web site. Both bring a wealth of experience to our organization: please welcome them aboard.

Cassie Hertert is the Director of Information Systems at Donor Alliance, where she leads initiatives to align process and workforce with the technology needed to save lives. Since joining Donor Alliance in 2015, Cassie has activated a movement among the donation community to deliver improved outcomes through data, developing the industry’s first and follow-up data summits, and leading a nationally recognized effort to embed data quality in daily operations.  She believes in the power of purpose to ignite momentum and is proud to merge her professional commitment with a personal passion supporting organ and tissue donation and transplantation. 

Pete Ivers is retired from Johns Hopkins Medicine where he was responsible for data warehouse and reporting, including aligning Epic content with content creators in 8 Data Trust Analytics Teams. Prior to moving into healthcare in 2002, Pete had a varied career applying analytics to manufacturing, banking, insurance, oil and chemicals in both the U.S. and U.K. Pete is currently chair of the HDAA Epic Special Interest Group, and a winner of the 2023 Susan McFarland Volunteer Award. Pete was chair of the HIMSS Knowledge Management / Data Warehouse Special Interest Group from 2006-2007. He has been a HDAA presenter since 2012.

Learn more about the entire HDAA board and staff on the Our People page.

HDAA 2024 in North Carolina

A great week in Chapel Hill!

More than 350 people attended the proceedings at UNC Health's wonderful Friday Conference Center. More than 220 (222, to be precise) were first-time attendees. It's an impossible task to acknowledge everyone's outstanding contribution to HDAA 2024, so consider this a somewhat representative and highly subjective sample of our two keynotes, one keynote panel, three additional panel discussions, three dozen presentations, twenty posters, and a dozen roundtables. In all, 131 members, sponsors and guests contributed meaningfully to our agenda. Details are here.

HDAA 2025 - Analytics in Music City

We are thrilled to announce that HDAA 2025 will take place in October 2025 in Nashville, TN, hosted by Vanderbilt University Medical Center. VUMC's Ed Marx and Cristina Ingram will be leading our conference planning effort, supported as always by HDAA's Carrie Sweeney. announced By all means do this now!

October 27-30, 2025 

Healthcare Data & Analytics Association Annual Conference
Hosted by Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Embassy Suites by Hilton Nashville Downtown
Nashville, TN

Click here for the latest on HDAA 2025.

WHO WE ARE

HDAA is a volunteer organization comprising more than four thousand data and analytics practitioners throughout North America and abroad: academic medical centers, large and small healthcare providers, insurance companies, key government agencies, and public health organizations.

We are the professionals who produce the analytics that improve patient outcomes, track and reduce healthcare costs, and support medical research.

Once a year, we meet in person for a three-day conference to cement our relationships and renew our commitment to sharing information in the service of our profession. Throughout the year, we gather online via town halls, special interest group meetings and active online forums. A sampling of the issues we address:

• Data governance and literacy
• Healthcare equity
• Advanced data engineering concepts
• Data warehousing principles
• Regulatory reporting
• Cloud computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Analytics from leading EMR vendors
• Population health analytics 
• Staffing and career advancement
• Operating models for healthcare analytics

WHY JOIN HDAA?

 Immediately connect to an engaged network of your peers 

• Professionals directly involved in the day-to-day curation and generation of healthcare analytics:  business intelligence analysts, data engineers, data modelers, data scientists, data stewards, integration architects
• Directors and hiring managers of analytics departments throughout our organizations: IT, quality improvement, finance, clinical decision support, healthcare informatics, population health networks, research, and more
• C-Suite executives responsible for producing and using analytics

Gain access to years of materials from the healthcare industry's leading data and analytics professionals:

• HDAA annual conference presentations
• Webinar recordings
• Panel discussions

Want to know more? Here's more information on HDAA's mission, our story, and our people.