Helping healthcare and community benefit organizations put their data to work for good.
If you aren't getting enough value from your data, we can help.
The keys to finally becoming data-driven typically don't lie in better widgets. Your data team needs to be relentlessly curious about improving the value, and the experience, of working with your organization's data.
About Us
Mike Doyle is the founder of PocketWater LLC. After a professional career spanning more than 20 years, across multiple areas of the US healthcare technology ecosystem and working for some of the most respected companies in healthcare, Mike started PocketWater LLC to help his clients drive more business value with their data and analytic investments. Mike has consistently focused on bringing pragmatic, data-driven solutions to visionary, yet often disenfranchised, leaders. His broad range of professional and personal experiences enable him to help you make progress on the thorniest of strategy, governance, people, cultural, and technology issues preventing you from realizing the full potential of your organization's data. Mike's professional highlights include:
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10 years with Health Catalyst, a leading, publicly-traded, data platform, applications, and services company in the healthcare space. Mike's career with Health Catalyst included roles leading their roughly $70M annually recurring-revenue (ARR) professional services business, and serving as Chief Customer Officer with accountability for all existing client ARR ($250M+).
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6+ years with Allina Health (as both an employee and with Health Catalyst), leading their data and analytics function. Mike managed team of highly-skilled analysts, developers, and consultants which drove $75M+ in data-driven financial results for Allina Health.
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8 years with the Northwestern Medicine family of companies, including Northwestern Medical School and the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation. The academic medical center experience provided Mike with exposure to a broad range of business needs, leadership opportunities and technical challenges: everything from serving as the informatics lead for a groundbreaking genetics banking project to developing a highly-successful, cross-institutional enterprise data warehouse from scratch.
Services
PocketWater provides high-value, advisory and consulting services to help you drive more results, at lower cost, with your healthcare and community benefit data. Whether you need a trusted perspective to improve a specific aspect of your data governance, or would benefit from a refresh of your enterprise analytics strategy, our experience can help you do more with your existing data and analytics investments.
Get Real
We can provide an honest, unbiased, assessment of your data program's greatest strengths and potential improvement opportunities. We always start by listening deeply to not only what is, but also what is not being said by your data customers, your team, and your colleagues about the effectiveness of your existing data strategy and operations.
Get Organized
Since 2020, many organizations have experienced unprecedented change; causing them to rethink what the "North Star" for their data program really looks like. External leadership, mergers and acquisitions, operating model changes, budget cuts, and more. Let us help you clearly define an inspiring and pragmatic vision for future data success.
Get Aligned
Knowing where you are and where you want to be are only as good as your plan to bridge the gaps. We can help you chart an actionable and aligned path from current state to future vision. We can help you identify the most needed data domains, transform existing vendor relationships, jumpstart pragmatic data governance, and perhaps most-importantly, communicate more effectively.