Governance before go-live: How Children’s Mercy readied its analytics for Epic

Thursday, September 10
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
  • Brett Generaux

    Presenter

    Brett Generaux

    Senior Director Data Governance & Analytics

    Children’s Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, Missouri)

  • Warren Teachout

    Presenter

    Warren Teachout

    Director of Decision Support, Medical Informatics

    Children’s Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, Missouri)

  • Michael Sayer

    Presenter

    Michael Sayer

    Senior Director of Data Science

    Children’s Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, Missouri)

  • Glenn David

    Presenter

    Glenn David

    Senior Director of Digital Health

    Nordic

Many health systems invest heavily in analytics but still wrestle with fragmented reporting, unclear governance and inconsistent data standards. Those gaps grow more consequential the moment a major analytics or reporting build enters the picture.

Children’s Mercy took a different path. To prepare its analytics environment for a new build within Epic, the hospital assessed more than 2,200 dashboards, established a governance framework spanning six enterprise initiatives and built a roadmap to modernize reporting.

In this session, leaders from Children’s Mercy share the decisions behind that work — what they prioritized, where they hit unexpected resistance and how a governance-first approach set up a smoother path to go-live.

You’ll learn:

  • How Children’s Mercy assessed more than 2,200 dashboards to guide modernization and consolidation
  • Why governance became the foundation of the analytics effort
  • Lessons from building governance across six enterprise initiatives
  • Practical strategies for data stewardship, prioritization and decision-making