Mr. Dale Sanders

Biography

Dale has been one of the most influential leaders in healthcare analytics and data warehousing since his earliest days in the industry, starting at Intermountain Healthcare from 1997 to 2005, where he was the chief architect for the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) and regional director of medical informatics at LDS Hospital.

In 2001, Dale founded the Healthcare Data Warehousing Association and, from 2005 to 2009, he was the CIO for Northwestern University’s physicians’ group and the chief architect of the Northwestern Medical EDW. From 2009 to 2012, Dale served as the CIO for the national health system of the Cayman Islands, where he helped lead the implementation of new care delivery processes that are now associated with accountable care in the U.S.

Prior to his healthcare experience, Dale had a diverse 14-year career that included duties as a CIO on Looking Glass airborne command posts in the U.S. Air Force; IT support for the Reagan/Gorbachev summits; nuclear threat assessment for the National Security Agency and START Treaty; chief architect for the Intel Corp’s Integrated Logistics Data Warehouse; and co-founder of Information Technology International. As a systems engineer at TRW Inc., Dale and his team developed the largest Oracle data warehouse in the world at that time (1995), using an innovative design principle now known as a late-binding architecture.

He holds a BS degree in chemistry and minor in biology from Ft. Lewis College, Durango Colorado, and is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Information Systems Engineering program.