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Author - Tara Eckert
Tara Eckert has 18 years of experience in the healthcare industry in a myriad of roles ranging from administrative support, operational leadership, and for the last 10 years, information technology. Her healthcare technology experience includes time as an Epic analyst and later a data engineering and analytics project manager for the Johns Hopkins Health System, until 2019, at which time she transitioned to Kennedy Krieger Institute, an academic affiliate of Johns Hopkins.
At Kennedy Krieger, she founded and cultivated the data governance and data literacy programs, established a collaborative project management process that connects front end application development with back-end data architecture and engineering, founded the Informatics programs and the Institute’s first Project Management Office, and created a Research Technology team within the Digital Transformation program. In her role as Assistant Vice President of Digital Transformation, she runs the Digital Transformation program (analytics, data engineering and architecture, Microsoft 365 training, project management, application development, and research informatics). She oversees many aspects of running the Information Technology department including the creation and maintenance of policies and procedures and overseeing initiatives for IT process improvement and service excellence.
Alongside the AVP of Clinical Services, she also co-leads the Access Transformation initiative, which is a program to improve access to services across the Institute through process optimization and data-informed decision making.
