Alex Owen

Health Catalyst (HCAT) transformed its CI/CD strategy by replacing a rigid, internal deployment tool with Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs), unlocking greater agility and efficiency. This shift streamlined deployments across both customer workspaces and HCAT's core platform, accelerating time to insights and driving continuous innovation. By adopting DABs, HCAT ensures feature parity, standardizes metric stores across clients, and rapidly delivers tailored analytics solutions. Attendees will gain practical insights into modernizing CI/CD pipelines for healthcare analytics, leveraging Databricks to scale data-driven improvements. HCAT's next-generation platform, Health Catalyst Ignite™, integrates healthcare-specific data models, self-service analytics, and domain expertise—powering faster, smarter decision-making.

Hinge Health faced challenges in hiring global data teams due to the complexities of PHI (Protected Health Information) governance. Unable to hire without compliant data sharing and unable to scale PHI governance without a larger team, we overcame this chicken or the egg challenge by adopting Unity Catalog's Fine-Grain Access Control. In this session, we will share our journey migrating to Unity Catalog, securing PHI with row filters/column masks, lessons learned and how our efforts surpassed our own expectations. This session equips data teams with strategies for HIPAA compliance without compromising flexibility and collaboration. Hinge Health is the leading digital MSK clinic, serving 11M+ members and 500+ employer health plans offering virtual physical therapy to reduce pain, surgeries and opioid use.