Seattle Children's Tech Stack
Pediatric health system operating 10,000+ staff across clinical care and research
Seattle Children's is a large nonprofit health system running Epic and Cerner clinical systems alongside Workday for workforce management—currently in active Workday implementation. The hiring mix is heavily weighted toward clinical and research roles (260 of 309 open positions), with only 3 engineering headcount, indicating a traditionally healthcare-operated organization now modernizing administrative infrastructure. Active projects span clinical program expansion (cardiology growth, cleft palate intervention trials), process improvement (specimen flow, coding accuracy), and workforce initiatives (diversity and compliance), reflecting the complexity of scaling a multi-specialty pediatric hospital.
Tech Stack 20 technologies
What Seattle Children's Is Building
◆Challenges
- Minimizing access delays
- Reducing coding errors
- Complex provider compensation program
- Market-aligned compensation practices
- Compliance with health and safety regulations
- Establishing quality assurance program
- Implementing workday
- Union contract negotiations
- Ensuring cms billing compliance
- Improving patient safety
▲Active Projects
- Continuous performance improvement (cpi)
- Workday implementation
- Workforce inclusion diversity equity and access (idea)
- Pediatric cardiology program growth
- Professional coding improvement work
- Sc professional compliance program
- Patient safety
- Value based behaviors
- Parent-focused language intervention rct for toddlers with cleft palate
- Process improvement of specimen flow
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Environmental Health Director, Service Lines Director, Perinatal Services Director, Clinical Lead
