Health Catalyst Leaders Share Vision for Health Catalyst’s Future and Introduce Ignite Intelligence
Health Catalyst has been honored on TIME’s inaugural list of the World’s Top HealthTech Companies of 2025, a curated ranking of 400 innovators reshaping healthcare technology. Developed in partnership with Statista, the list highlights organizations from more than 25 countries across six market segments, including AI & Data Analytics. Companies were ranked on three metrics—financial performance, reputation analysis, and online engagement—and classified into categories depending on the service they provide. This global recognition serves as both a validation of past achievements and a pathway for what’s next.
Health Catalyst leaders are looking ahead by sharing their vision for the company’s future and unveiling the near-term product roadmap. Their focus remains on advancing innovation, deepening client impact, and driving meaningful outcomes across the healthcare ecosystem. At the heart of this momentum is Ignite Intelligence, launched to ignite the next generation of healthcare improvement.
Members of Health Catalyst’s leadership team—Dan Samarov, Chief AI Officer and Robbie Hughes, SVP of Product Strategy, emphasize that while healthcare’s challenges are intensifying, so is their capacity to address them with revolutionary solutions.
Ignite Intelligence, Health Catalyst’s AI-powered improvement co-pilot, is an example of a solution designed to address healthcare challenges. It transforms decades of expertise into real-time insights to drive cost efficiency, operational growth, and value-based care. Built on healthcare-specific data and analytics infrastructure, supported by clinical, financial, and operational experts, Ignite Intelligence delivers actionable insights that enable sustained improvement.
“Improvement has always been our core mission, but a mission alone doesn’t solve healthcare’s biggest challenges. Being recognized by TIME validates our unique approach of embedding decades of expertise into AI, turning the promise of improvement into measurable, real-world results for our partners.” Hughes said.
At its core, Ignite Intelligence combines shared models, AI agents, benchmarks, and comparison services to accelerate results, with real-world savings already demonstrated. For instance, Clinical Cost Intelligence, one of its flagship solutions, moves healthcare systems costing from months of analysis to instant insights across procedures, supplies, and service lines, using methods like supply normalization, ontology mapping, ML-driven variation analysis, and LLM-enabled opportunity screening.
Looking ahead, Health Catalyst’s near-term product roadmap is structured, timely, and focused. It includes Clinical Cost Intelligence (available now); ambulatory operations solutions focused on growth, efficiency, and retention (launching winter 2025); and integrated value-based care tools with risk simulation (spring 2026).
“At the center of everything Health Catalyst does is measurable improvement. And we design our products with this in mind,” Samarov said. “And, at the core of all this, we want to make sure we are doing right by the patient.”
Earning a place on TIME’s inaugural list reinforces Health Catalyst’s role as a trusted partner in transforming healthcare. The evaluation combined a global survey of industry experts, healthcare professionals and investors with independent research on innovation, impact, and company performance. Honorees were selected not only for financial success, but for demonstrable contributions to improving healthcare access, quality, and efficiency. This methodology ensures the list reflects organizations making a tangible difference in the evolution of health technology worldwide.
Health Catalyst’s mission for the future remains clear: harnessing the power of data and analytics to drive measurable, lasting healthcare improvement. By uniting AI-driven intelligence with healthcare expertise, the commitment to help providers and health systems deliver better outcomes becomes not just aspirational, but achievable.
