Katherine Rowell

Kathy Rowell is Co-Founder and Principal of HealthDataViz (HDV), a Boston firm specializing in helping health and healthcare organizations communicate data visually to make informed decisions. Over the past 30 years, Kathy has worked with providers, payers, policymakers, regulatory agencies, and public health departments, advising them on how to align their systems, design dashboards, report, multidimensional exploratory displays (MEDS™) and infographics, and develop staff to communicate their data clearly. Highlights of Kathy's work include establishing the Massachusetts General Hospital Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness, launching the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) to over 400 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada, and publication of numerous high-profile articles. Her clients are many of the leading health and healthcare organizations in the world, including Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the World Health Organization, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Urban Indian Health Institute, Children's Hospital Association, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, among others. Kathy also delivers full-day public and private workshops on data visualization best practices for health and healthcare professionals and is a highly sought-after speaker. And her books Visualizing Health and Healthcare Data, Tableau for Healthcare Professionals and The Best Boring Book Ever of Select Healthcare Classification Systems and Databases and monthly newsletter, “Health and Healthcare Data Unleashed,” have thousands of passionate readers and subscribers from around the world. Kathy has a Master of Health Administration from the University of New Hampshire and a Master of Science degree from the Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine. She is a recipient of the prestigious Partners in Excellence Award for leadership and innovation and the Independent Publishers Award. Kathy lives in York, ME with her husband Bret and Australian Shepherds Juno and Summer, and on perfect days daughter Annie and son-in-law Doug. In keeping with her passion for helping her clients see their data in a new way, she loves cruising the coast of Maine in her boat "Visualize," which provides endless opportunities to consider the landscape in new and revelatory ways.