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

What you'll own

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
• Key deliverables you'll drive
• 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

Requirements

• 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
• Nice to have
• 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