Selected professional experience
Strategy, transformation, infrastructure, and implementation across complex healthcare environments.
The examples below describe Jason Butler’s professional experience and are presented to demonstrate scope and perspective. Organization names do not imply endorsement. Do not add client logos without permission.
Enterprise EHR transformation
Context: Regional health system and community care network
Role: Chief Medical Information Officer
Relevant services: Clinical Informatics & EHR Transformation; Fractional CMIO & Executive Advisory
Selected work
- Led physician governance during consolidation of 24 technology systems into an enterprise Epic platform
- Delivered the enterprise transformation 15% under budget
- Directed an Epic Connect implementation for a local federally qualified health center
- Led clinical governance, quality, training, change, and adoption work
- Maintained clinical technology operations through Hurricanes Matthew and Florence and supported rapid virtual-care transition during the initial COVID-19 response
Safety-net MEDITECH leadership
Context: Chicago safety-net hospital
Role: Consulting Chief Medical Information Officer through HealthNet Consulting
Relevant services: Fractional CMIO & Executive Advisory; Clinical Informatics & EHR Transformation
Selected work
- Clinical-informatics governance and executive advisory
- Cybersecurity policy development with clinical-operational alignment
- Workflow and clinical-content design across emergency, inpatient, ICU, and ambulatory settings
- Provider training, adoption, and organizational readiness for EHR transition
- Translation of clinical and operational requirements into prioritized implementation work
Rural and community data infrastructure
Context: Rural nonprofit, public-health, and community organizations
Role: Executive Director, Rural Medical Data Centers for Excellence
Relevant services: Rural, Tribal & Safety-Net Health Strategy; Research, Grant & Learning Health System Informatics
Selected work
- Public-health informatics and nonprofit technology strategy
- Cloud-enabled data and digital-service infrastructure
- Development of a web- and mobile-accessible community resource-navigation platform
- Collaborative grant development and cross-organizational partnership support
- Data architecture, analytics, geospatial work, and knowledge transfer
Tribal-governed data-infrastructure support
Context: Tribal health and community learning-system initiative
Role: Informatics and data-infrastructure consultant through RMD Centers
Practice note: Technical work follows Tribal authority and does not claim authority over Indigenous knowledge or governance.
Relevant services: Rural, Tribal & Safety-Net Health Strategy; Research, Grant & Learning Health System Informatics
Selected work
- Requirements translation under Tribal governance
- Secure cloud and database architecture
- ETL, data dictionaries, quality controls, access, audit, and reporting design
- Interoperability and analytic feedback-loop planning
- Knowledge transfer and sustainable Tribal stewardship
Acute-care addiction-service informatics
Context: Hospital, outpatient, nonprofit, and community-facing addiction-service model
Role: Public health informatics and data administrator / consultant
Relevant services: Research, Grant & Learning Health System Informatics; Healthcare AI, Data Strategy & Governance
Selected work
- Data infrastructure and public-health reporting
- IT and cybersecurity support across nonprofit and for-profit components
- Workflow translation and reporting design
- Grant strategy and implementation support
- Development of practical tracking and analytic capacity around a complex service model
Rural research implementation
Context: National genomic health-disparities study
Role: Research investigator and rural implementation lead
Relevant services: Research, Grant & Learning Health System Informatics
Selected work
- Community-focused rural participant recruitment
- Clinical and community workflow coordination
- Translation of national study requirements into workable local processes
- Increased rural North Carolina recruitment by 37%
Cross-platform clinical transformation
Across consulting and leadership roles, Dr. Butler has led or advised Epic, MEDITECH, Oracle Health/Cerner, Allscripts, and mixed-paper/digital transitions involving governance, workflow, physician engagement, training, go-live, optimization, interoperability, and data.
These programs have affected more than 5,000 providers.