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. 

HDAA NEWS

Congratulations to our newest board member

Please join us in welcoming Rachini Moosavi to the HDAA Board!

Many of you know Rachini from her exceptional leadership last year, when she and her team hosted the highly successful HDAA Annual Conference at UNC. Her deep expertise in healthcare data, analytics, and AI — combined with a passion for collaboration and innovation — makes her a tremendous addition to an already amazing Board. 

As Chief Analytics Officer at UNC Health, Rachini Moosavi leads the organization's data, analytics, and AI enablement strategy. She frequently shares her insights with industry leaders on leveraging technology, analytics, and conscious leadership to reimagine healthcare and ourselves. With degrees in Health Policy & Management from UNC-Chapel Hill, a Chief Data Officer Certificate from Carnegie Mellon University, and over 20 years of industry experience, Rachini’s personal mission is to leave a lasting, positive impact on healthcare. 

Her perspective and energy will be a powerful asset as we continue to grow our community and advance our shared mission to improve lives, harnessing data, analytics and AI.  

We’re absolutely thrilled to have Rachini on board!

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 responsible for data warehouse and reporting at Johns Hopkins Medicine, 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 Kevin, Cassie, Pete and 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.

HDAA InsiGHTS

We have completed season one of HDAA Insights, our series aimed at recruiting the next generation of healthcare analysts. Twenty-two HDAA members contributed their time and perspectives in six panel discussions. Check here for more information.