Illuminate Health

Forward-Deployed Healthcare Data Engineering

Embedded Engineers for Trusted Healthcare Data

Illuminate Health embeds senior data engineers with your team to unify claims, clinical, and operational data, ship trusted analytics, and build product-grade assets in Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks.

  • Forward-deployed senior engineers
  • Auditable analytics
  • PHI stays in your cloud
  • Product-grade delivery

Product Spotlight

EMPI Engine + Workbench

Enterprise patient matching logic plus analyst workbench, deployed in your warehouse with transparent rules, tunable thresholds, and no external PHI movement.

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Our URL Framework for Trusted Healthcare Data

Modern platforms do not matter if people do not trust the numbers. Our URL framework keeps analytics transparent and actionable at every step: Universe, Reconcile, and Look.

U

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.

Together, Universe-Reconcile-Look ensures the solutions we deliver are not only powerful, but trusted by the people who use them.

Built for Trust

The fastest way to lose adoption is to ship numbers people do not believe. We design delivery so your team can inspect, validate, and extend everything we build.

Trust Workflow

  1. Step 1

    Senior-Only Delivery

    You work directly with experienced partners embedded in your workflows. Fast ramp, fewer handoffs, and delivery quality you can see from day one.

  2. Step 2

    URL Framework

    Universe, Reconcile, Look. Our default operating framework keeps scope explicit, numbers reconciled, and outputs pressure-tested before decision-makers use them.

  3. Step 3

    Security by Architecture

    We bring code to your data. Work runs inside your environment with least-privilege access so PHI stays in your systems and your controls stay in force.

  • Commitment

    Platform-Native, No Lock-In

    We build on Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Databricks using standard tooling so you own what we deliver and can extend it.

  • Commitment

    Healthcare Domain Expertise

    Built by people who have worked in healthcare. We align engineering to real decisions in value-based care, population health, risk adjustment, and quality programs.

Services

Forward-deployed delivery for healthcare data teams that need trustworthy analytics and production-ready data products.

Custom Data Platform

Design and implementation of modern healthcare data platforms that unify claims, clinical, and operational data into a reconciled source of truth. We build clean pipelines, models, and analytics ready marts so teams can move faster with confidence.

Analytics Enablement and Metric Contracts

Define the metrics that matter, document lineage, and reconcile results back to source systems so stakeholders trust the numbers and can act on them.

Warehouse-Native Product Engineering

Design and implementation of in-warehouse products that run where your data lives, with transparent logic and no external SaaS required.

Products

Product-grade capabilities delivered inside your warehouse: transparent logic, no external SaaS, and no PHI leaving your environment.

EMPI Engine + Workbench

A complete in-warehouse patient matching product that combines enterprise EMPI logic with an analyst workbench for tuning, review, and operational QA.

  • No PHI leaves your cloud environment
  • Transparent matching rules with tunable thresholds
  • Batch and incremental workflows for production use

Implementation and Integration

We deploy and integrate the product directly in your environment so your teams can adopt it quickly and operate it confidently.

  • Runs on Fabric, Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery
  • Works with existing identity, claims, and clinical pipelines
  • Delivery includes enablement for data and analyst teams

Built-In Security and Governance

Every product and engagement follows the same architecture: code runs inside your environment under your IAM policies with auditable logs and transparent logic.

  • Code-to-data model keeps PHI in your systems
  • Least-privilege access and auditable execution
  • Standard BAAs available

Small Team. Big Impact.

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.

Leadership

Tom Sherwood
Partner / Co-Founder, analytics engineer and product development in value-based care.
Brad Montierth
Partner / Co-Founder, data architecture and engineering.

Ready to Illuminate Your Data?

We can start with a 30-minute platform and metric reliability review, then map a practical first milestone.

hello@illuminatehealthanalytics.com

Grand Rapids, Michigan