20+ years
Healthcare and informatics experience
Healthcare AI · Clinical Informatics · Executive Advisory
Complex healthcare technology decisions, made executable.
J Butler MD Consulting helps health systems, technology companies, research teams, and mission-driven organizations align clinical reality, data, governance, and implementation.
Physician executive · Consulting CMIO · Clinical and public health informatician
5,000+
Providers affected by EHR and change programs
Epic · MEDITECH · Oracle Health/Cerner
Cross-platform leadership
Clinical · Public Health · Research
Integrated perspective
From strategy to adoption
Strategy is only valuable when it survives contact with real clinical work.
Healthcare organizations rarely struggle because they lack technology options. They struggle because clinical priorities, governance, data, workflow, technical architecture, and organizational capacity are addressed separately.
J Butler MD Consulting brings those layers into one decision process. The work is designed to help leaders clarify risk, establish governance, translate clinical needs into actionable requirements, and move from recommendation to implementation.
Consulting services
Focused expertise for high-stakes healthcare decisions
Executive advisory
Fractional CMIO & Executive Advisory
Interim and fractional physician-informatics leadership for hospitals and health systems navigating EHR transitions, governance gaps, portfolio decisions, or physician-adoption challenges.
Explore this service →Transformation
Clinical Informatics & EHR Transformation
Governance, workflow, clinical content, readiness, implementation, optimization, and adoption support across Epic, MEDITECH, and Oracle Health/Cerner environments.
Explore this service →AI and data
Healthcare AI, Data Strategy & Governance
Practical AI readiness, use-case prioritization, data architecture, interoperability, risk governance, evaluation, and implementation planning grounded in clinical operations.
Explore this service →Community strategy
Rural, Tribal & Safety-Net Health Strategy
Data, technology, public-health, resilience, and implementation strategies designed around local governance, limited resources, community priorities, and sustainable capacity.
Explore this service →Research informatics
Research, Grant & Learning Health System Informatics
Informatics leadership for grant teams, learning health systems, implementation studies, data-management plans, evaluation workflows, and governed analytic feedback loops.
Explore this service →Product advisory
Health Technology Clinical Advisory
Clinical and workflow guidance for health-technology and AI companies developing, validating, integrating, piloting, and positioning products for real healthcare environments.
Explore this service →Independent review
Expert Review & Expert Witness Services
Independent analysis of clinical informatics, EHR workflow, governance, order-entry, implementation, clinical decision support, and health-technology questions.
Explore this service →Executive education
Speaking, Workshops & Executive Education
Keynotes, board briefings, leadership sessions, and working workshops on CMIO value, healthcare AI governance, EHR transformation, data strategy, and rural health innovation.
Explore this service →A cross-layer perspective
One advisor who can work from the boardroom to the clinical workflow—and into the architecture.
Physician and executive judgment
Recommendations begin with patient care, clinical risk, operational reality, and the decisions leaders are accountable for making.
Informatics and technical depth
EHRs, interoperability, cloud, data, cybersecurity, analytics, AI, and governance are treated as one operating system—not as disconnected projects.
Implementation discipline
The goal is not a presentation that ends with recommendations. The goal is an executable roadmap, clear ownership, usable governance, and adoption in practice.
Experience in constrained environments
Rural, Tribal, safety-net, nonprofit, public-health, and emergency settings require strategies that account for limited staff, fragmented data, competing priorities, and sustainability.
Evidence of execution
Experience across transformation, implementation, and governed data systems
24 technology systems consolidated
Into an enterprise Epic platform, delivered 15% under budget.
More than 5,000 providers
Affected by EHR implementation, optimization, training, and change programs.
Current consulting CMIO leadership
Supporting governance, cybersecurity, workflow, provider adoption, and MEDITECH transition in a safety-net setting.
37% increase
In rural research recruitment through community-focused implementation.
Clients and partners
Built for organizations where clinical, technical, and organizational complexity meet
Hospitals and health systems
Healthcare technology and AI companies
Academic and grant-funded research teams
Rural, Tribal, safety-net, and public-health organizations
Mission-driven healthcare nonprofits
Legal teams and organizations requiring independent review
Ways to work together
The engagement should match the decision—not force the decision into a standard package.
Fractional or interim leadership
Embedded executive informatics leadership for defined days, transitions, or organizational needs.
Advisory retainer
Ongoing access for leadership decisions, governance, portfolio review, risk, and implementation guidance.
Fixed-scope assessment or roadmap
A focused current-state assessment, executive decision brief, readiness review, or implementation roadmap.
Project leadership, independent review, or education
Hands-on leadership for a defined initiative, expert analysis, board education, keynote, or working session.
Jason Butler, MD, MPH
Clinical credibility. Executive experience. Technical fluency.
Jason Butler is a physician executive, consulting CMIO, and clinical and public health informatician with more than two decades of experience translating healthcare priorities into governed technology, workflow, data, and change-management programs.
His work spans health systems, safety-net hospitals, rural and Tribal initiatives, public-health organizations, research programs, nonprofits, and healthcare technology companies. He has led or advised Epic, MEDITECH, and Oracle Health/Cerner initiatives and brings additional experience in cloud architecture, interoperability, analytics, AI, cybersecurity, data governance, and health-services research review.
Bring clinical reality, technology, and execution into the same conversation.
Start with a focused discussion about the decision, transition, or program your organization needs to move forward.