HDAA
HDAA Special Interest Groups (SIGs) bring together healthcare analytics professionals who share a focused area of expertise or interest. Each SIG provides a community to exchange knowledge, tackle domain-specific challenges, and advance best practices. Whether you work with a specific EHR platform, analytics discipline, or clinical area, there is a SIG designed to connect you with peers who share your passion.
Any technology that pertains to the movement, analysis or presentation of healthcare data — from data lakes and cloud computing to AI and predictive modeling. This group connects analytics professionals exploring the full spectrum of advanced techniques in healthcare.
Learn More →HDAA's Epic SIG meets monthly to discuss analytics issues in and around the Epic EHR, including Cogito, Caboodle, Slicer/Dicer, and the growing intersection of Epic data with Microsoft tools like Fabric and Azure.
Learn More →A forum with webinars to discuss your career journey. Potential topics include: Getting Started: New graduates or clinical staff, how do you get your foot in the door of this exciting industry. Between jobs: What happens when you end up between jobs either by choice or otherwise. How to stay connected. What is working for you or not. AI Replacement: The toughest topic. How to avoid it. How to turn it to a positive. Retirement: We spend a career in analysis, but it does not prepare you for the complexities of retirement. Understanding the emotional impact in addition to potential lifestyles.
Learn More →The Data Engineering SIG focuses on topics of interest to data engineers with a technical and architectural lens, covering cloud migration, data pipeline design, and the infrastructure that powers healthcare analytics.
Learn More →Data Governance and Data Literacy are key focus areas for HDAA. This SIG hosts quarterly presentations and roundtables on governance frameworks, data stewardship, data literacy development, and aligning data practices with organizational priorities.
Learn More →Purpose: To support faculty and instructors teaching healthcare data analytics in academia and healthcare settings Goal: Share resources, strategies, innovations Focus: Teaching
Learn More →The Pharmacy and Medication Use SIG debuted in 2023 with a focus on inpatient pharmacy analytics, and has grown to explore 340B programs, medication reconciliation, prescribing patterns, and the full range of medication analytics challenges.
Learn More →HDAA's Population Health Analytics SIG launched in 2023 to connect professionals working on community health, value-based care, and the data and tools that support population-level interventions and outcomes measurement.
Learn More →Founded in 2024, the Research SIG meets quarterly to discuss a broad array of topics from Common Data Models to Research Operations, helping healthcare analytics professionals navigate the challenges of supporting clinical and translational research.
Learn More →The Strategy, Value & Culture SIG strengthens the impact of healthcare analytics teams by developing shared frameworks for aligning with organizational priorities, defining and creating value, and growing analytics maturity within an organization's culture.
Learn More →HDAA's Women in Analytics group covers a wide range of topics — technologies, work-life balance, career development, ethics, and equity — through quarterly presentations and open-ended conversations reflecting the diverse experiences of women in healthcare analytics.
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