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Health Catalyst Announces Winners of the 2025 Catalyst Awards

Health Catalyst Announces Winners of the 2025 Catalyst Awards

Recognizing Healthcare’s Data-Driven Innovators at the 2025 Health Catalyst Analytics Summit

Salt Lake City, Utah – August 29, 2025 – Health Catalyst, Inc. ("Health Catalyst," Nasdaq: HCAT), a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, today announced the winners of the 2025 Catalyst Awards, an annual program recognizing healthcare organizations at the forefront of data-driven transformation.

The Catalyst Awards were presented at the Health Catalyst Analytics Summit (HAS) 2025 in Salt Lake City, Utah, recognizing 10 healthcare organizations across 11 categories, as well as one Flywheel Award winner. In total, 28 leading hospitals and health systems were named finalists, all setting the standard for data-driven innovation and healthcare advancement. Attendees at HAS convene to explore the potential of data and analytics in an intimate setting, addressing some of healthcare’s most critical challenges, including improving quality, reducing costs, increasing revenue, and managing population health.

“We’re honored to recognize these organizations for their remarkable, data-informed transformation journeys,” said Dan Burton, CEO of Health Catalyst. “Their measurable clinical, operational, and financial achievements exemplify what’s possible through data and collaboration. We’re grateful to support their continued impact in improving healthcare.” 

The 2025 Catalyst Award Winners

The Flywheel Award Winner: Stanford Health Care

Stanford Health Care, a leader in research and patient care, was recognized with The Flywheel Award. This award recognizes a lifetime of achievement, acknowledging the exceptional contributions of an organization that has revolutionized healthcare and enhanced the well-being of individuals and communities it serves. This recognition is bestowed upon entities that consistently leverage data and analytics to achieve significant, measurable improvements throughout their entire organization.

AI & Analytics Health Impact Winner: Stanford Health Care

Stanford Health Care was also named the winner of the AI & Analytics Health Impact category. Stanford Health Care’s use of AI to enhance care quality improved the identification of patients with metastatic cancer as candidates most in need of advanced care planning conversations and inpatient hospital referrals.

Analytics Efficiency & Insight Acceleration Winner: MedStar Health

MedStar Health, a not-for-profit healthcare organization based in Columbia, Maryland, was named the Catalyst Award winner in the Analytics Efficiency & Insight Acceleration category. MedStar Health earned recognition for transforming analytics into a strategic engine for continuous, data-driven decision-making. The organization prioritized high-impact initiatives and advanced data fluency, collaboration, and enterprise enablement. As a result, it saved more than 50,000 hours, generated more than $1 million in ROI, and earned a 4.5 out of 5 satisfaction score from internal partners.

Patient Engagement Excellence Winner: MedStar Health

MedStar Health was also named the winner of the Patient Engagement Excellence category. Using innovative, scalable digital solutions, the organization transformed pre-procedure, post-discharge, and population health outreach to improve the patient experience and drive operational efficiency. The results: engaged more than 43,000 patients to close care gaps, improved blood pressure control for 2,200 individuals, placed over 2,000 preventive screening orders, increased adoption of self-directed education and recovery tools, and redirected labor cost savings from automation of pre-anesthesia testing.

Care Quality Excellence Winner: Lifepoint Health

Lifepoint Health, a leading healthcare provider based in Brentwood, Tennessee, that serves patients, clinicians, communities, and partner organizations across the healthcare continuum, was named the winner of the Care Quality Excellence category for its data-driven unwarranted care variation program. Lifepoint Health was recognized for its outstanding achievements in delivering measurable outcomes, including more than 700 patient lives saved through sepsis and heart failure mortality reductions, 1,200 fewer blood products transfused, and length of stay reductions that allowed patients to spend 24,000 more days at home.

Excellence in Technology-Enabled Managed Services Winner: Carle Health

Carle Health, a healthcare provider across Illinois, was named a Catalyst Award winner in the Excellence in Technology-Enabled Managed Services category for its organization-wide data-driven improvements. By automating Magnet® survey data processes and leveraging analytics and Technology-Enabled Managed Services, the health system enhanced nursing transparency and performance tracking, supported data-driven decision-making, and aligned system-wide quality goals—contributing to multiple regions achieving Magnet® with Distinction.

Operational Excellence Winner: Thibodaux Regional Health System

Thibodaux Regional Health System, a leading medical provider in Louisiana, was named the winner of the Operational Excellence category for reducing average MRI wait times with same-day service, tripling annual wellness visits, and increasing revenue through data-driven insights.

Financial Transformation Winner: Temple University Health System

Temple University HealthSystem (Temple Health), a Philadelphia-based academic health system committed to quality patient care and excellence in medical education and research, was named the winner of the FinancialTransformation category for its data-driven healthcare improvements. TempleHealth applied activity-based costing to understand actual costs and linked cost and quality data to identify and prioritize opportunities for revenue, price, and quality improvement. Initiatives such as disposition days, collection, and enhanced service line charge capture and recovery have generated millions in revenue, ensuring appropriate payment for services provided.  

Revenue Excellence Winner: Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute

Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute, part of a nonprofit health system based in Minnesota, was named the winner of the Revenue Excellence category. To meet growing demand for cardiovascular care, they established the Comprehensive Cardiovascular Care and Coordination Center (C5). C5 offers services such as 24/7 curbside cardiology consultations, e-consults, coordinated outpatient follow-up, and remote patient monitoring. The initiative has resulted in more than 8,000 curbside calls in 16 months, a 35% increase in direct admissions, a 49% reduction in the time to accept direct admissions, and a 27% increase in cardiovascular procedures, expanding life-saving procedures for thousands of patients.

Quality Performance & Measures Excellence Winner: Revere Medical

Revere Medical, an employed medical group and affiliate provider network spanning Arizona, Florida,Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Tennessee, and Texas, was named the winner of the Quality Performance and Measures Excellence category for its data-driven Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)performance reporting. The organization was recognized for navigating MIPS at scale, reporting performance across more than 35 EHRs and 187 practices. One of the first Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to report under MIPS, RevereMedical integrated enough data to meet the Centers for Medicare & MedicaidServices requirement of 70% data completeness, generating millions in shared savings. The organization also achieved a 56% relative increase in depression screening, positively impacting 165,000 patients, and improved glycemic control for 7,000patients with diabetes.

Organizational Transformation Winner: INTEGRIS Health

INTEGRIS Health, Oklahoma’s largest not-for-profit and locally owned healthcare system, was named the winner of the OrganizationalTransformation category for driving enterprise-wide improvement through data.  INTEGRIS Health designed and adopted a data-informed enterprise operating system, the INTEGRIS Health Way, creating a culture of improvement and achieved exponential outcomes. Using its transformational vision and Technology Enabled Managed Services, INTEGRIS Health embedded its vision into the way its caregivers do their work. Some examples of improvement include enhancing patient health by closing thousands of care gaps, $2.7million in cost savings from readmissions avoided, $30 million in labor cost savings, and utilizing AI to identify future improvement opportunities and establish meaningful performance goals.

Population Health Impact Winner: Innovative Healthcare Collaborative of Indiana

Innovative Healthcare Collaborative of Indiana, a wholly owned joint venture between Deaconess HealthSystem in Evansville and Community Health Network in Indianapolis, was named the winner of the Population Health Impact category for its data-driven innovations.These efforts resulted in: a $28.3 million cost reduction over one year through improved inpatient utilization; a $9.88 decrease in per-member-per-month costs;3.64 fewer inpatient visits per 1,000 members annually; 5,600 additional days spent at home by patients; and 307 fewer readmissions within 30 days of hospital discharge.

More than 200 client-driven improvements were evaluated this year byHealth Catalyst's judging panel to determine finalists and winners. The process begins with client nominations, which include an overview of the challenge addressed, baseline metrics, interventions, results, and the impact on patients, communities, healthcare professionals, and organizational performance. Nominations are then reviewed by Health Catalyst’s executive leadership team, which includes the CEO, CTO, COO, Chief Clinical Officer, ChiefClient Success Officer, SVP of Marketing and Communications, and ChiefCommercial Officer. Judges placed the greatest value on entries that demonstrate clear, measurable outcomes supported by data, visuals, and compelling stories of impact. The entries are evaluated based on quantitative and qualitative results, as well as stories that demonstrate how the improvement has impacted patients, communities, healthcare professionals, or the organization. The most successful nominations concisely highlight meaningful, sustained results that advance clinical, operational, or financial performance in the above categories.

 

About Health Catalyst

Health Catalyst (Nasdaq: HCAT) is a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services that ignite smarter healthcare, lighting the path to measurable clinical, financial, and operational improvement. More than 1,000 organizations worldwide rely on Health Catalyst's offerings, including our cloud-based technology ecosystem Health Catalyst Ignite™, AI-enabled data and analytics solutions, and expert services to drive meaningful outcomes across hundreds of millions of patient records. Powered by high-value data, standardized measures and registries, and deep healthcare domain expertise,Ignite helps organizations transform complex information into actionable insights. Backed by a multi-decade mission and a proven track record of delivering billions of dollars in measurable results, Health Catalyst continues to serve as the catalyst for massive, measurable, data-informed healthcare improvement and innovation.

 

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