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Physician executive · Consulting CMIO · Informatician
A physician executive who can move between the boardroom, the clinical workflow, and the technical architecture.
Jason Butler, MD, MPH, is a clinical and public health informatician and healthcare executive with more than two decades of experience translating clinical and operational priorities into governed technology, workflow, data, and change-management programs.
His work spans health systems, safety-net hospitals, academic medical centers, federally qualified health centers, public-health organizations, rural and Tribal initiatives, research programs, nonprofits, and healthcare technology companies.
Current leadership
Dr. Butler serves as a consulting Chief Medical Information Officer through HealthNet Consulting for Roseland Community Hospital, where he advises executive and clinical leaders on clinical governance, cybersecurity, workflow design, provider training, adoption, and EHR transition in a MEDITECH environment.
He is also Executive Director of Rural Medical Data Centers for Excellence, supporting rural and community organizations through public-health informatics, cloud-enabled infrastructure, data systems, analytics, digital services, and collaborative grant development.
He chairs a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Health Systems Research Scientific Merit Review Board subcommittee on healthcare informatics, bringing an implementation-focused clinical and technical perspective to health-services research review.
Health-system transformation experience
As Chief Medical Information Officer at UNC Health Southeastern, Dr. Butler led physician governance and the consolidation of 24 technology systems into an enterprise Epic platform delivered 15% under budget. He directed an Epic Connect implementation for a local federally qualified health center and helped sustain clinical technology operations through Hurricanes Matthew and Florence and the initial COVID-19 response.
Across additional engagements, he has led or advised Epic, MEDITECH, Oracle Health/Cerner, and mixed-system programs involving workflow redesign, clinical content, physician engagement, training, go-live support, optimization, data, and interoperability. These initiatives have affected more than 5,000 providers.
Public health, rural, and research implementation
Dr. Butler’s work includes rural public-health data infrastructure, community resource navigation, acute-care addiction-service reporting, cloud and database architecture, geospatial analysis, cybersecurity, and governed analytic workflows.
As a research investigator supporting the national GUARDD study, he increased rural North Carolina recruitment by 37% through community-focused implementation. His research and review experience reinforces a practical principle: strong methods require workable recruitment, workflow, data, governance, and sustainability.
Education and technical perspective
- Doctor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine
- Master of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- DrPH candidate, Health Policy and Management / Public Health Informatics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Epic Physician Builder experience
- AWS and Microsoft Azure credentials and applied cloud experience
- Interoperability experience including HL7 and FHIR
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Professional note
Organization names on this site identify professional experience and do not imply endorsement of J Butler MD Consulting.
Working approach
Bring the right perspectives together
Clinical, operational, technical, governance, financial, research, and community realities must be considered in the same process.
Design for implementation
Recommendations should identify ownership, sequencing, dependencies, metrics, and the organizational mechanisms required to sustain the work.
Respect context and authority
Solutions must fit the organization’s mission, resources, governance, community relationships, and—where applicable—Tribal authority and data sovereignty.