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Fractional Data Leadership

Data expertise in service of women's health.

We provide fractional data leadership and data services with a mission to improve women's health by closing gaps, improving outcomes, and expanding access for all women.

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Our Mission

Transforming women's healthcare through data.

Too many women face delayed diagnoses, limited treatment options and systemic barriers to quality care. We intend to close these gaps, improve outcomes and expand access for all women.

We see immense opportunity for progress across health technology, digital therapeutics and novel care delivery models. Berkana is uniquely positioned to accelerate that progress through deep expertise in data science, AI and advanced analytics, powering smarter strategies, more inclusive research and development, and real-world solutions that improve women's health.

Senior data leadership, engaged exactly when you need it.

What We Do

Services built for healthcare data challenges

Insights

  • Wrangle, explore and extract actionable insights from diverse datasets
  • Visualize and communicate insights through clear, compelling data stories

Strategy

  • Conduct strategic gap analysis of data sources, infrastructure and analytics ecosystems, followed by targeted enrichment of data assets
  • Data governance design and implementation

Analytics

  • Uncover hidden trends and performance levers using advanced analytics and intuitive dashboards tailored to stakeholder needs
  • Dashboard development with a focus on data standardization, scalability and quality

Modeling

  • Develop and validate machine learning models to power data-driven product features and predictive capabilities
  • Design and execute proof-of-concept analyses to evaluate feasibility and guide effective implementation
About the Principal

Heather Shapiro, PhD

Heather brings more than 20 years of data science and analytics leadership in health technology to every engagement. Before founding Berkana Data, she led data science at Pear Therapeutics, helping build the world's first prescription digital therapeutics. Earlier, she helped build Pebble Health, the steps and sleep-tracking engine behind Pebble, the original smartwatch. Her approach is rooted in a deep research and behavioral science background, sharpened during her PhD training in Cognitive Neuroscience at UC Davis.

20+ Years in Health Tech Data PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience Formerly Pear Therapeutics, Willow Pump, Pebble
Let's Connect

Would love to connect.

Tell us about your data challenges. We'll follow up to explore how fractional data leadership can help.

Heather Shapiro PhD, Principal heather@berkanadata.com 617-855-9536