Healthfirst: Using data to provide the best healthcare possible

Steve runs a team of analysts, data scientists, and data engineers dedicated to improving people’s engagement with data. He’s a Java-developer-turned MBA (Wash U in St. Louis) who’s worked across many segments in the healthcare industry, including pharma, CRO’s, home health, and insurance. He’s passionate about public health, behavioral economics, predictive analytics, and data visualization. He’s working to make every decision at Healthfirst a data-driven one and to make it a great place to be an analyst.

Ryan Cannon is a Senior Analyst with Healthfirst developing analytic solutions for senior stakeholders. He focuses on exploring opportunities for financial improvement and enhancing care delivery to members. His Tableau dashboards have yielded over $20 million in cost savings while improving quality and outcomes. Prior consulting experience includes predictive modeling to integrate financial and clinical data, as well as development of non-traditional risk-sharing arrangements.

Andy Dé is the senior global industry director for Healthcare and Life Sciences at Tableau Software. In this role, he leads the innovation, thought leadership, go-to-market, partner ecosystem and commercialization strategy, planning and execution for Tableau’s solutions targeted at healthcare providers, payers, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. He has over 20 years of prior enterprise software innovation strategy, solutions portfolio management, and go-to-market strategy, planning and execution leadership experience at GE Healthcare, SAP Health-Sciences and i2.

Andy is passionate about healthcare innovation and authors the health sciences strategy blog and its companion Twitter feed (@HITstrategy) with a readership audience across 47 countries, which has been referenced by the Harvard Medical School, the Ohio State University (OSU), the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Partners Healthcare, and the Washington Post. He has been extensively quoted and published in leading Healthcare publications like Healthcare IT News, Health Data Management (HDM), Healthcare Informatics, Search Health IT, Fierce Healthcare, Modern Healthcare, Health Management Technology, and Hospitals and Healthcare Networks. Andy was recently recognized as ‘one of the Top 55 Healthcare IT experts and thought leaders on Twitter in 2016' by Health Data Management (HDM), and as one of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors by the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HiMSS). His professional profile can be accessed at www.andyde.com.