A Utah Healthcare Hero’s Rippling Impact on Data-Driven Healthcare Improvement

Every year, Utah Business and the Roseman University of Health Sciences honor individuals who have made it their mission to improve the state of health in Utah, lauding those making a difference by naming them among the Beehive State’s Healthcare Heroes.

In 2024, Health Catalyst’s CEO, Dan Burton, was recognized on this prestigious list.  While this acknowledgment highlights Burton’s dedication to advancing the health and well-being of the Utah community through innovative leadership, his influence reaches beyond the state as Health Catalyst’s data and analytics technology empowers healthcare leaders worldwide to enhance patient care.

Nurturing deep roots in Utah, Burton has served as a board member for Silicon Slopes, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, since 2016. He actively contributes to the Silicon Slopes community by promoting diversity and inclusion in the tech sector.

He champions initiatives that support women in technology. This effort and his leadership in creating a diverse workplace highlight his commitment to mentoring and fostering growth opportunities for underrepresented groups, significantly impacting the strength and growth of Utah’s tech scene.

Health Catalyst’s investment locally has earned the company recognition by the following institutions in 2024:

• Women Tech Council’s Shatter List: Health Catalyst has earned a place on this list for seven years. The list showcases technology companies that are creating and enacting practices and cultures that remove the glass ceiling in technology.
• Salt Lake Tribune’s Top Workplaces: Health Catalyst secured a spot for the eleventh consecutive year. The list is based on employee surveys and celebrates companies in Utah that promote people-first workplace environments.
• Burton was awarded the Decade of Impact Award by the Women Tech Council: This award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to their industries and communities over the last ten years.

Beyond Utah’s borders, Health Catalyst’s cutting-edge solutions have contributed to better patient outcomes and operational efficiency across healthcare systems worldwide.

In 2024 alone, several U.S. healthcare organizations leveraged Health Catalyst’s data-driven solutions to achieve remarkable outcomes. Collectively, efforts by the following medical systems resulted in more than $86 million in realized cost savings and improved care for patients:

1. The University of Kansas Health System: The University of Kansas Health System automated registration audits using Health Catalyst’s data and analytics platform, improving registration accuracy by 95%, optimizing revenue cycle performance, and reducing claims denials, significantly enhancing overall financial outcomes.
   
2. Innovative Healthcare Collaborative of Indiana (IHCI): By leveraging Health Catalyst’s data and analytics technology, IHCI improved value-based care outcomes, achieving a 50% reduction in readmissions and a 20% reduction in hospitalizations. This led to better patient outcomes and $28.3 million in cost savings.
   
3. WakeMed Health and Hospitals (WakeMed):  Through a clinical transformation journey supported by data and analytics from Health Catalyst, WakeMed enabled care standardization improvement for 22 different patient populations, decreasing the length of stay (LOS) for patients, opening up capacity to 15 more available beds per day, resulting in the organization achieving a $17 million cost reduction.
   
4. UnityPoint Health: UnityPoint’s LOS predictive model, paired with other LOS improvement initiatives, reduced expenses by $41 million, eliminated 38K excess LOS days, and saved 5,000 nursing labor hours.
   
5. Carle Health: By employing Health Catalyst Tech-Enabled Managed Services, Healthcare.AI™ suite, and Health Catalyst Value Optimizer™, Carle Health gained economies of scale, contained escalating costs, and decreased costs by millions.

These case studies highlight the widespread impact of Health Catalyst’s technology and professional services in improving healthcare quality, patient outcomes, and financial performance across the country.

On the international front, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, the United Kingdom’s leading provider of hospital and community-based healthcare, streamlined its data archiving processes by leveraging Health Catalyst’s data and analytics platform. This partnership resulted in a robust, scalable, and cost-effective long-term healthcare data archiving solution in just 90 days, yielding approximately £6.5 million in savings.

In addition, Health Catalyst acquired Lumeon, a digital health company with operations in the U.S. and the U.K., dedicated to helping provider organizations mend broken care coordination processes through automated care orchestration. The combination will enable healthcare organizations to not only access data-driven insights at scale but also automate the clinical actions needed to ensure those insights are translated into personalized care processes for patients and care teams, closing the loop for data-driven transformation.

Moreover, Burton’s contributions to the healthcare technology sector—from supporting a thriving start-up community in Utah to advancing trailblazing solutions that produce meaningful healthcare improvement— have positioned Health Catalyst as an emerging global technology leader and a proud Utah success story.