About Health Analytics Connect
Health Analytics Connect was founded by leaders who have spent decades designing, governing, and scaling enterprise healthcare analytics infrastructure for national health plans, employers, and digital health innovators.
We help organizations translate complex healthcare data into governed measurement, credible reporting, and defensible business outcomes.
Our Perspective
Healthcare organizations increasingly depend on analytics to guide financial decisions, vendor relationships, and program strategy. Yet many still rely on fragmented reporting environments and vendor-defined measurement frameworks.
Health Analytics Connect was founded to address this gap — helping organizations establish enterprise-owned analytics infrastructure and governed evaluation frameworks that support credible, finance-ready decision making.
Our Team
Our leadership team has worked together for decades designing and operating enterprise healthcare analytics platforms, advising national organizations, and embedding analytics capability within complex healthcare environments. Their work includes platforms used by national health plans, employer programs representing billions in healthcare spend, and evaluation frameworks governing complex healthcare ecosystems.
Mary Henderson, PhD
Mary brings more than three decades of experience designing enterprise healthcare analytics platforms and advising national health plans, employers, and digital health innovators. She has built and led high-performing analytic organizations serving the nation’s largest employers, health plans, and provider systems.
Mary previously served as President of Health Data Management Solutions (HDMS), a CVS/Aetna subsidiary delivering healthcare analytics and consulting solutions nationally and internationally. She later held senior executive roles at the American Medical Association and Blue Health Intelligence (BHI), where she led business solutions, product development, sales, and account management functions.
Throughout her career, Mary has guided organizations in transforming complex healthcare data into strategic insight — spanning cost and utilization analytics, provider measurement, product strategy, and enterprise reporting. She currently serves on the Board of the Healthcare Cost Institute.
Mary holds a Ph.D. in Health Economics from Brandeis University and a B.A. in Psychology from Temple University, graduating summa cum laude.
Joulan Wu
Joulan brings deep technical expertise and strategic insight to healthcare analytics, with extensive experience transforming complex data into actionable intelligence for payers, employers, and health systems. Her work spans cost and utilization analytics, provider performance measurement, predictive modeling, and advanced analytic methodologies that support data-driven decision-making.
Throughout her career, Joulan has led complex analytic initiatives, developed scalable reporting frameworks, and guided organizations in strengthening their analytic infrastructure. She is known for her ability to move seamlessly from detailed data exploration to executive-level interpretation, ensuring analytic outputs translate into measurable business impact.
At Health Analytics Connect, Joulan leads analytic design and data strategy, overseeing deep-dive analyses, methodology development, and technical validation across client engagements and proprietary products, including Analytic Recipes.
Joulan holds a Master’s degree in Health Services Administration from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Taipei Medical University.
Maria Ferrera
Maria is a healthcare analytics executive with more than 25 years of experience leading data science and analytic strategy initiatives across the healthcare ecosystem. Her expertise spans advanced modeling, analytic infrastructure assessment, and translating complex data into measurable clinical and financial outcomes.
Maria previously led the Enterprise Reporting and Data Science team at AbleTo, where she directed data scientists and analysts responsible for predictive targeting algorithms and program evaluation analytics in behavioral health. She also served as Vice President of Analytic Consulting and Data Science at Blue Health Intelligence (BHI), leading projects across the Blue system that ranged from provider performance measurement to advanced predictive modeling.
Known for blending deep technical expertise with healthcare domain knowledge, Maria helps organizations strengthen analytic maturity, demonstrate value, and make more informed strategic decisions.
At Health Analytics Connect, Maria focuses on building scalable analytic capabilities and ensuring that advanced methods—from predictive models to machine learning—translate into real-world performance improvement.
She holds a Master’s degree in Psychology from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University.
Denise Zeman
Denise brings more than three decades of experience spanning healthcare benefits consulting, enterprise operations, and analytics product leadership. Her career has focused on aligning strategy, organizational performance, and market-facing analytics solutions across complex healthcare environments.
Denise spent nearly ten years at Hewitt Associates and another decade at Mercer, advising employer clients and contributing to national benefits and analytics product initiatives. She later served as Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer at Health Data Management Solutions (HDMS), a CVS/Aetna subsidiary, where she oversaw enterprise operations including legal, marketing, training, and organizational performance. She subsequently held executive roles at the American Medical Association and Blue Health Intelligence, guiding product portfolio initiatives and strategic market engagement for advanced analytics platforms.
At Health Analytics Connect, Denise oversees operational execution and product development, including the firm’s training programs and Analytic Recipes product. She works collaboratively with the HAC leadership team to ensure that strategy, analytics, and client delivery remain aligned, practical, and outcomes-focused.
Denise holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix, graduating with honors.
Jon Rimbach
Jon brings over 25 years of experience in healthcare financial and clinical analytics across payer, provider, and health technology organizations. His work spans provider reimbursement, managed care risk, population health, and employer group analytics, where he translates complex data into practical, strategic insight.
Jon began his career leading analytics at Partners HealthCare System, supporting revenue cycle and reimbursement strategy for Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. He played a key role in system-wide pricing and reimbursement initiatives and led managed care underpayment audits that drove meaningful financial recovery.
He later served as Director of Health Plan Services at Health Data Management Solutions (HDMS), overseeing analytic services and client implementations for national health plans, including international healthcare initiatives. Most recently, at Blue Health Intelligence (BHI), he partnered with health plan clients to deploy advanced analytics and deliver custom reporting aligned with market-specific needs.
Jon holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, graduating cum laude.
Scott Guichard
Scott brings 30 years of experience in healthcare analytics, consulting, and health technology innovation. His expertise spans advanced analytics, customer success strategy, product positioning, and go-to-market execution across payer, employer, and emerging health tech organizations.
Scott has worked extensively with both established enterprises and early-stage companies, helping translate complex healthcare data into scalable analytics platforms and actionable business solutions. He has played a key role in shaping product design, refining market fit, developing sales messaging, and building analytics infrastructure to support benefit design, population health reporting, and outcomes measurement.
Most recently, Scott led the restructuring and growth of a customer success organization at a rapidly expanding company focused on addressing social determinants of health. Prior to that, he served as Director of Solutions Engineering at Artemis Health, where he was the product expert for a national employer analytics platform, and he consulted internationally to bring healthcare analytics best practices to developing health systems.
Scott holds a Master of Public Health in Behavioral Science and Health Education from Emory University and a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York at Buffalo.