Case Study: Texas Children’s Hospital achieves rapid quality improvements and a 15% reduction in unnecessary chest X-rays with Health Catalyst

How Texas Children’s Turned Child Diabetes Management into a Community Cause

Texas Children’s Hospital, a large, not-for-profit pediatric system, faced rising pressure to succeed under value-based care but lacked the enterprise-wide data and analytics to manage high-cost populations and eliminate inefficiency. Although it had implemented an Epic EHR, clinicians could not get timely, actionable data for quality improvement, so Texas Children’s engaged Health Catalyst to build a comprehensive data management and analytics capability.

Health Catalyst implemented its Adaptive Data Warehouse, advanced analytics and a clinician-driven measurement framework, standing up the EDW in three months and embedding cross-functional teams to target improvement. Using near real-time data and dashboards, the teams reduced unnecessary chest X‑rays for asthma patients by 15% in 1.5 months, accelerated analysis of length-of-stay drivers, expanded the program to other conditions, and increased clinician engagement in data-driven care improvement.

Texas Children's Hospital

Bonnie McCann-Crosby

MD Diabetes and Endocrinology