Danielle Dude, MBA, MHA

Danielle began in healthcare consulting. At Dixon Hughes Goodman, she supported revenue cycle and operations work for health systems, hospitals, and physician practices, including ICD-10 readiness and physician compensation analysis. At FTI Consulting, she led client-facing workstreams for healthcare clients focused on operational improvement and change. She also served as command center lead for go-lives, scheduled downtimes, and disaster recovery events, and oversaw integration planning to connect laboratory systems to Epic through Data Innovations middleware. As Senior Director of Practice Operations for Howard University Hospital's faculty practice plan, she supported more than 100 providers and 300 employees, redesigned operations, and helped deliver major improvements in financial performance.

At Tower Health, Danielle led the Epic implementation and integration that brought St. Christopher's Hospital for Children into Tower Health's systems, workflows, and governance. She managed projects covering more than 300 third-party applications and moved the program to a virtual model when COVID-19 hit. At Walmart Health, as Director of Digital Transformation, she led new clinic implementations at more than 50 sites across multiple states and converted more than 20 existing sites to a single Epic solution. Her readiness, go-live, and post-live plans cut go-live incidents by 75%. She also redesigned role-based training (earning a 4.9 out of 5 learner satisfaction score), delivered more than 100 value-based care enhancements, and led a virtual care team serving all 50 states.

In 2025, Danielle led integration strategy across more than 30 third-party applications during Delta Dental's Epic implementation. Today she serves as Program Director for SIU School of Medicine's Epic Community Connect implementation with host partner Memorial Health, supporting more than 400 providers across clinical, billing, and administrative areas, while helping lead Spark.

Areas of expertise

• Epic implementations and Community Connect programs
• Multi-site clinic launches, go-live readiness, and stabilization
• Third-party application integration strategy
• Program governance, risk management, and change control
• Practice operations and revenue cycle
• Training design and user adoption
• Multi-entity alignment after mergers and acquisitions

Selected experience

• Spark Healthcare Advisory: Founder and Chief Financial & Administrative Officer
• SIU School of Medicine: Program Director, Epic Community Connect, 2025 to present
• Delta Dental: Integration program lead for the Epic implementation, 2025
• Walmart Health: Director, Digital Transformation, 2021 to 2025
• Tower Health: Epic implementation and integration lead for St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, 2019 to 2021
• Howard University Hospital: Senior Director of Practice Operations, 2018 to 2019
• FTI Consulting: Senior Consultant, 2015 to 2019
• Dixon Hughes Goodman: Associate, 2013 to 2015

Education and credentials

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Health Administration (MHA), Georgia State University, J. Mack Robinson College of Business
• Bachelor of Science, Biological Science, Georgia State University
• Epic certifications: EpicCare Ambulatory, Cadence, Prelude, MyChart, Welcome, Bridges, Data Courier, and Campaigns
• Former vice president, Future Healthcare Executives at Georgia State University

Outside of work

When she's not leading programs, Danielle is navigating the roads in her RV, partly discovering new places and partly rediscovering where she parked.