Build The Data Foundation
We design and implement modern healthcare data platforms that unify claims, clinical, and operational data into a reconciled foundation your team can trust.
Senior Healthcare Data Engineering, Embedded With Your Team
A Senior Partner For Healthcare Data You Can Trust
Illuminate embeds senior engineers with healthcare teams to reconcile metrics, strengthen data foundations, and ship warehouse-native products inside your environment.
Built for Trust
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Senior-only delivery
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PHI stays in your cloud
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Metrics reconciled to source
How We Work
How We Make Healthcare Data Trustworthy
We work inside your environment, define the universe early, reconcile the measures that matter, and look at outputs with your team before they reach decision-makers.
Universe, Reconcile, Look keeps the work simple to explain and hard to misunderstand.
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Universe of Data
Every insight depends on the data you are actually looking at. We define scope up front: what sources are included, what is not, and what questions the analysis can and cannot answer.
Claims data is great for cost and utilization, but it will not answer questions about labs unless those clinical feeds are intentionally included.
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Reconcile Your Data
After ETL and transformations, we do not just hope the numbers are right. We prove it by reconciling key measures back to legacy systems and source-of-truth reports.
We compare counts, dollars, and other critical metrics so teams can see that before and after totals match expectations.
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Look at the Data
Analyst review is where results get validated. We sanity check outputs, investigate outliers, and pressure-test measures against what is typical for similar populations.
Automated checks catch structure issues, but human eyes find what rules miss so stakeholders trust what the data is saying.
Ways We Help
How We Partner With Your Team
We step in where healthcare data teams usually stall: platform buildout, metric trust, and product-grade delivery.
Make Metrics Decision-Ready
We define the measures that matter, document lineage, and reconcile outputs back to trusted sources so stakeholders can act on the numbers.
Ship Products In Your Environment
We build warehouse-native products that run where your data lives, with transparent logic and no external SaaS runtime.
Products
Products That Grew Out Of Real Delivery Work
These products show how we build: transparent logic, warehouse-native execution, and no PHI leaving your environment.
EMPI
EMPI Engine + Workbench
Transparent patient identity resolution with warehouse-native matching, analyst review, and deterministic golden records.
- Warehouse-native probabilistic linkage
- Manual review workbench and visual config editor
- No external PHI movement or SaaS runtime
Predictive Models
Predictive Models
dbt-native predictive modeling that trains and scores directly in your warehouse using your own claims history and target policy.
- Train on your own data, not benchmark cohorts
- Registry-aware model reuse and reproducible outputs
- Standard warehouse tables for predictions and evaluation metrics
Spotlight DQ
Spotlight DQ
Healthcare data quality monitoring for reconciliation, completeness, and terminology validity with PHI-safe aggregate outputs.
- Claims and enrollment reconciliation by month and plan
- Field-level completeness with applicability rules
- Terminology validation with trendable official-run history
Partners
Who You'll Work With
Illuminate Health is a boutique healthcare data engineering and analytics partner for organizations working in value-based care and population health.
Our senior-only team brings 20+ years of combined experience across consulting, health technology, software products, and provider organizations. We build secure, platform-native data platforms and in-warehouse products inside your environment.
We work like embedded engineers: join planning, ship in small increments, demo frequently, and document decisions so your team can run what we build.
Our default delivery model is URL: Universe, Reconcile, Look. Define scope, prove the numbers, then validate results with human judgment.
Partners
Tom Sherwood
Partner / Co-Founder, analytics engineering and product delivery in value-based care.
Brad Montierth
Partner / Co-Founder, data architecture and engineering.
Contact
Start With A Practical First Conversation
We'll start with a 30-minute review of your platform, metrics, and delivery constraints, then map a practical first milestone.