Job Description

On behalf of our Healthcare client, Affinity Healthcare Solutions is seeking a Clinical Information Systems (CIS) Strategist. The ideal consultant combines hands- on acute-care CIS architecture and implementation experience with system- level strategy, TCO modelling and investment planning, plus substantive knowledge of Oracle Health/Cerner Millennium, MEDITECH Expanse and Epic in complex multi- vendor healthcare environments.

Responsibilities

- Experience conducting current-state assessments across multiple healthcare organizations operating different CIS platforms, architectures, and operating models.
- Experience developing future-state and target-state CIS architectures at health-system scale.
- Ability to assess strategic options within a provincial multi- vendor direction, without predetermining platform replacement or consolidation or reopening established provincial architecture.
- Ability to develop and objectively evaluate strategic options, including:
- Optimizing existing CIS platforms.
- Consolidating existing instances.
- Reducing the number of strategic platforms.
- Converging toward common platforms.
- Adopting common provincial capabilities.
- Maintaining a multi- vendor environment enabled through stronger interoperability.

- Ability to define transparent evaluation criteria and decision frameworks covering:

- Clinical capability.
- Patient safety.
- Interoperability.
- Architecture.
- Implementation complexity.
- Workforce requirements.
- Operational impact.
- Risk.
- Affordability.
- Total cost of ownership.
- Long-term sustainability.





- Demonstrated ability to translate strategic direction into a sequenced and achievable multi- year CIS roadmap.

Investment and Financial Planning

- Experience developing multi-year CIS investment plans for major health-system transformations.
- Demonstrated capability in total-cost-of-ownership modelling for enterprise CIS platforms.
- Ability to assess costs associated with:
- Software licensing and subscriptions.
- Hosting and cloud services.
- Infrastructure.
- Interfaces and integration.
- Data conversion and migration.
- Implementation.
- Testing.
- Clinical and operational readiness.
- Education and training.
- Change management.
- Deployment and stabilization.
- Optimization.
- Ongoing operation and sustainment.

- Experience identifying investment sequencing, dependencies, affordability constraints, and decision gates for large- scale digital health programs.
- Ability to differentiate between sustainment, optimization, expansion, and transformation investments and articulate the benefits, risks, and financial implications of each.

Implementation and Operational Experience

- Demonstrated understanding of CIS design and build, including:
- Configuration.
- Workflow design.
- Testing.
- Data migration and conversion.
- Cutover.
- Deployment.
- Stabilization.
- Optimization.





- Understanding of the operational requirements associated with maintaining and upgrading enterprise CIS environments while simultaneously undertaking major transformation.
- Ability to assess the implementation capacity and readiness of organizations undertaking major CIS change.
- Experience considering the sequencing and dependencies between CIS transformation, major hospital capital projects, and other significant digital health initiatives.
- Robust understanding of the clinical change, adoption, and workforce implications associated with major CIS transformation.

Qualifications

Acute-Care CIS Expertise

- Significant senior-level experience developing acute-care Clinical Information System (CIS) and/or Electronic Health Record (EHR) strategies for large and complex healthcare environments, preferably at provincial, state, regional, or multi- health-system scale.
- Deep understanding of acute hospital clinical workflows and digital capabilities, including:
- Emergency.
- Inpatient.
- Critical care.
- Perioperative.
- Medication management.
- Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE).
- Clinical documentation.
- Pharmacy.
- Laboratory.
- Diagnostic imaging.
- Scheduling and registration.
- Health information management.

- Demonstrated ability to translate clinical service and operational requirements into CIS architecture, platform, implementation, and investment strategies.
- Experience assessing how CIS platforms support:

- Clinical quality.
- Patient safety.
- Standardization.
- Clinician experien

📌 Clinical Information Systems (Burnaby)
🏢 Affinity
📍 Burnaby