Children's Hospital of Philadelphia operates a large clinical and research apparatus built on Epic Systems, complemented by a technical stack spanning research tools (R, Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, MATLAB) and healthcare IT systems (ServiceNow, Workday, OnBase). Current hiring skews heavily toward clinical and research staff, with modest engineering and security capacity — typical for a nonprofit hospital system — though the adoption of GitHub Copilot and RPA suggests emerging focus on operational automation. Pain points cluster around revenue cycle integrity, regulatory compliance, and reimbursement optimization rather than clinical care delivery.
Tech Stack 38 technologies
What Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Is Building
◆Challenges
- Budget management
- Compliance with healthcare regulations
- Meeting regulatory requirements
- Reducing cultural and socio-economic barriers
- Denial reduction
- Reimbursement optimization
- Ensuring billing compliance
- Mapping existing processes
- Expanding division capacity
- Maintaining revenue cycle integrity
▲Active Projects
- Clinical trials
- Epic system enhancements
- Unit based quality improvement initiatives
- Research training program for clinical nursing staff
- Research projects
- Nih-funded prospective cohort study on antimicrobial pharmacology in mothers and infants
- Enhance understanding of diseases and progression in individuals with brain diseases
- Specimen delivery system implementation
- Program development
- Servicenow itom implementation
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Medical Director, Cardiac Anesthesiology Chief, Research Lab Director, Chief Pharmacy Officer, Director Central Processing
