HDAA

Special Interest Groups

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.

Advanced Analytics

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.

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Analytics with Cerner

HDAA's Cerner SIG meets periodically to discuss analytics issues in and around the Cerner electronic health record and related applications, including Millennium reporting, the HealtheIntent platform, and extracting Cerner data into external analytics environments.

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Analytics with Epic

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.

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Data Engineering

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.

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Data Governance

Data governance is one of the most active discussion topics at HDAA. This SIG hosts quarterly presentations and roundtables on building governance frameworks, stewarding data assets, and aligning governance practices with organizational priorities.

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Data Literacy

Data literacy describes the ability of individuals and organizations to read, write, and communicate with data in context. This SIG helps members build competencies to evaluate, construct, and communicate meaning with data across all roles and levels.

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Pharmacy and Medication Use

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.

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Population Health Analytics

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.

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Research

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.

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Strategy, Value & Culture

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.

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Women in Analytics

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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