Senior Health IT Consultant

We are partnered with a large academic medical center to develop a PM-ready Healthcare Technology Execution Blueprint for Year 1 (2026 to 2027). The Senior Health IT Consultant owns the strategic and stakeholder layer -- translating an existing technology roadmap into a sequenced, dependency mapped execution plan ready for PM handoff by July 2026.

3 Month Engagement

Remote (will require travel 1-2x per month for 3-4 days per visit) in San Francisco

Pay: Starting at $120/hour

• Lead all stakeholder interviews and facilitation sessions with health system leadership, including the CIO, CNIO, and Executive Director of Health Tech Solutions
• Drive technology prioritization, procurement sequencing, and roadmap decisions across four Year 1 workstreams: Digital Infrastructure, Enterprise Platform Alignment, EHR + Integration Readiness, and Smart Room Lite Pilots
• Own the narrative and synthesis — turn findings, assessments, and dependency analysis into the Healthcare Technology Execution Blueprint
• Serve as the primary relationship holder with the client leadership team throughout the engagement
• Co-produce the PM-ready handoff package and lead the transition briefing with incoming project managers
• Collaborate daily with the Senior Solutions Architect to ensure strategic and technical work advances in parallel

• Current state assessment across all healthcare technology domains
• Technology prioritization by domain, grounded in Epic-first evaluation framework
• Procurement sequencing and vendor shortlist by domain
• Year 1 Execution Plan — sequenced, dependency-mapped, PM-ready
• Executive Briefing Summary for leadership and board socialization
• Years 2–3 Directional Outline as design context for Year 1 decisions

• 10+ years in health IT strategy, advisory, or consulting — ideally with large academic medical centers or integrated health systems
• Demonstrated experience advising C-suite and VP-level health system executives (CIO, CNIO, CMO) on technology strategy and roadmap decisions
• Strong familiarity with Epic and the broader health IT ecosystem — digital infrastructure, clinical communications, smart room, and inpatient technology
• Proven ability to facilitate complex, multi-stakeholder alignment sessions and drive consensus on competing priorities
• Experience translating ambiguous strategic intent into structured, actionable execution plans
• Excellent written communication — able to produce executive-quality deliverables under tight timelines
• Comfortable working fast in a fixed-timeline engagement without sacrificing rigor

• Experience with smart room, RTLS, ambient clinical workflow, or inpatient experience technologies
• Prior work at or with large academic medical centers or Magnet-designated health systems
• PMP, FHIMSS, or equivalent credentialnt clinical workflow, or inpatient experience technologies

• Prior work at or with large academic medical centers or Magnet-designated health systems
• PMP, FHIMSS, or equivalent credential