HDAA Operations

Eric Anderson - Executive Director

Eric Anderson has worked in healthcare for over 45 years, beginning his career as a nurse in the Rehabilitation Unit at Maine Medical Center. Soon thereafter he was invited to participate in the implementation of the (then named) Technicon Medical Information Systems, adding keypunch skills to supplement his clinical skills. Over time he became the principle semantic interpreter among Clinical, Financial, Administrative and Technical users. At the time, there were only 5 hospitals using the TMIS system and he participated in the formation and leadership of their user group until it was sunset in 2000. It was here he learned the value of networking and sharing among peers, almost identical to the HDAA Mission and Vision. He was instrumental in the introduction of microcomputers (IBM PC, Apple IIc and Osborne 1) to the organization beginning

the migration away from the mainframe to server farms and networking. Before leaving the hospital, he authored or co-authored the strategic plans for data warehousing, Research Data Management and as the technology lead for several grants, including the technology section for successful grant of $15.3M contract for National Children’s Study (Technology Lead), award of $3.5M for National Cancer Institute Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP) (IT Pillar Lead) and, authored the Data Strategy section of the successfully awarded 4 year, $15 million CMS Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative. He left as Director of Quality Data Management, responsible for Data Warehousing and Integration.

The next phase of his career was as the Data Operations Manager at the Maine Health Management Coalition, now the Healthcare Purchaser Alliance of Maine. In this role he served as the Privacy and Security Officer, Lead resource for the Center for Healthcare Transparency innovation pilot and, developed the data strategy for the integration of clinical and claims data. The Coalition was a small team of professionals devoted to creating an open conversation among Providers, Payers, Brokers for a total Cost of Care model used for benefit design.

His philosophy is that all the work we do is first, beneficial to patients and their families, secondly to the care staff and others involved in the care workflows and, lastly to evaluate technical solutions to enhance the lives of the first two group. He is a strong proponent of transparency, involving patients and families in technology developments and the use of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) to identify solutions or issues in clinical, Financial and administrative domains. He has carried this passion forward as a HDAA member since 2008 and Executive Director since 2018.

Cassie Hertert - Program Manager

Cassie Hertert is the Director of Information Systems at Donor Alliance, where she leads initiatives to align process and workforce with the technology needed to save lives. Since joining Donor Alliance in 2015, Cassie has activated a movement among the donation community to deliver improved outcomes through data, developing the industry’s first and follow-up data summits, and leading a nationally recognized effort to embed data quality in daily operations.  She believes in the power of purpose to ignite momentum and is proud to merge her professional commitment with a personal passion supporting organ and tissue donation and transplantation. 

Pete Ivers - Program Manager

Pete Ivers is responsible for data warehouse and reporting at Johns Hopkins Medicine, including aligning Epic content with content creators in eight Data Trust Analytics Teams. Prior to moving into healthcare in 2002, Pete had a varied career applying analytics to manufacturing, banking, insurance, oil and chemicals in both the U.S. and U.K. Pete is past-chair of the HDAA Epic Special Interest Group, founded the Microsoft/Epic User Group, and a winner of the 2023 Susan McFarland Volunteer Award.

Pete was chair of the HIMSS Knowledge Management / Data Warehouse Special Interest Group from 2006-2007. He has been a HDAA member since around 2005 and presenter since 2012. 

Bruce Douglas - Retired Emeritus

Bruce Douglas was the Program Director for the Healthcare Data & Analytics Association until 2024. He was active in HDAA for more than a decade, serving on the board, including a three-year term as board president. Bruce retired in February 2021 after 22 years from Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was director of data analytics and integration. For much of that time, he was the lead designer for Emory’s Clinical Data Warehouse., a platform integrating both clinical and financial information.

He has nearly 40 years of experience in IT in a variety of roles, from resource and project management to data modeling, ETL design, business intelligence architecture and end-user training. Prior to his time at Emory, Bruce was a software developer with BellSouth, where he helped design a financial data warehouse and the company’s activity-based costing application. He also spent two years as a journalist with United Press International.

He is now enjoying retirement with his family and enjoying tennis in Atlanta.

Carrie Sweeney