Senior Vice President, Implementation Services

Elizabeth is a Registered Nurse and over her 35-year career, has held various positions from front-line nursing to senior/executive. Her level of expertise spans rural/urban, teaching hospitals, and integrated regional healthcare systems. Her results-oriented leadership style and proven talent for leading through change are supported by her innovative problem-solving and consensus-building skills.

Elizabeth has in-depth knowledge of clinical standards, practice, change management, benefits realization, and the transformation journey to a fully integrated electronic system that supports clinicians.

Since joining Healthtech in 2006, she has held several key leadership roles in a wide variety of large and small-scale as well as jurisdictional projects across the healthcare sector in Canada. She has significant consulting experience in advisory services, implementation, business development, project and vendor management, governance, consensus building, current state assessments, process redesign, and clinical adoption. She has a proven track record for developing effective and long-lasting relationships with clients, partners, and team members.

Vice President, Strategy and Transformation

Bill works with healthcare leaders to develop innovative strategies that cut across organizational boundaries and information silos. Bill has supported over 150 hospitals in five countries with their EHR journeys, including programme definition, tendering, business case development and approvals, workforce planning, implementation, and sustainment planning.

Bill regularly facilitates strategic conversations with executives, board members, clinicians (including physicians), and information systems leaders, particularly between partnering organizations.

Bill’s work has included governance, shared services development, multi-organization planning, and business case development. Two recent engagements include development and implementation of a province-wide supply chain shared service in Canada, and co-authorship of a guide for organizations implementing shared EHR systems for the National Health Service (NHS) in England (NHSE).
Bill has guided over 20 digital health strategic planning projects, including at hospital, regional, and jurisdictional levels. Bill has held Interim Chief Information Officer or similar roles at 7 different organizations.

Bill travels from Dublin, Ireland.

Vice President, Implementation Services

Kim is an EHR Implementation professional and a respected project leader. She is known for her deep knowledge of clinical systems gained through 32 years of experience in the healthcare sector. Since leaving the direct healthcare sector Kim has contributed to many projects over the last 8 years, including several multi-site implementations. Kim has been successful leaving current staff with the skills and confidence to apply them when the project has completed.

As a leader in the design, build and implementation of Closed Loop Medication Management she has become a recognized expert in assisting organizations in achieving Stage 6 and Stage 7 on the HIMSS EMRAM Scale.

Kim’s experience coupled with her ability to communicate and collaborate with all members of a clinical team makes Kim a highly effective clinical consultant. Implementation in the multi-site, shared CIS environment requires early engagement and continued collaboration with all clinical teams. Leadership and strategic engagement with the site leaders combined with strong team development has been a cornerstone of the successful projects Kim has been engaged with.

Vice President, Implementation Services

Lisa is a Registered Nurse with over 25 years of progressive healthcare leadership. With a clinical background in oncology nursing, Lisa has held various roles spanning direct clinical care across the cancer continuum, professional practice leadership, health care management, quality improvement, informatics/digital health, and health system design/integration at the local, regional, and provincial levels.

She is a Prosci® Certified Change Management Professional who is passionate about working collaboratively to drive transformation, build capacity for innovation, and to improve quality, equitable healthcare care. Lisa influences clinical innovation by bridging the clinical and technology teams to solve sticky problems in new ways using proven methodologies in service design, process improvement, project management, and change management.

Vice President, Implementation Services

A seasoned healthcare information technology professional with over 25 years experience.  Andrew engages healthcare organizations across Canada with a consultative approach to problem solving.  He has expertise in HIT strategic planning and road mapping, managed services, clinical information systems solutions and implementations.

Andrew has enjoyed a stellar career in the Cerner health information technology environment leading and advancing sales, strategy, and business development.  He has built strong relationships across the Canadian healthcare landscape and has a deep understanding of successes and challenges organizations face during clinical systems deployments.  Andrew has extensive leadership experience and knowledge of clinical information systems solutions and services, and the value these solution sets bring to the Canadian healthcare marketplace.

Senior Vice President

David Thomas is an innovative digital health leader who drives sustainable growth through strategic approaches. As Chief Operating Officer for Delphic Research, a technology “scale-up” in the health and government affairs spaces, David was instrumental in accelerating the company’s success and maturity.

From 2004 to 2023, David was a Vice President at TELUS Health, the largest digital health provider in Canada. In that role, he oversaw multiple portfolios and was responsible for large, complex deals in Newfoundland, British Columbia, and Ontario. He was promoted to Managing Principal at TELUS and orchestrated the development of a new global health platform business, signing $27 million in contracts. David has more than 30 years of experience and relationships in our national health system and in the global digital health market, giving him a strong understanding of the complexity of healthcare IT at the intersection of public and private industries, including homecare, teaching hospitals, and government.

As a former chair of the Technation Health Board, Canada’s digital health industry association, and as a former chair of the board of one of Canada’s premier private boarding schools, David is well versed in public and private sectors across education and healthcare.

Vice President, Digital Health

Supporting Healthtech's pan-Canadian client’s digital health transformation across data and analytics, integration, cloud, back-office, and cybersecurity, Jason has led complex and large projects and programs, achieving strategic transformation by applying technology, best practices, and innovation. Jason is passionate about creating a connected healthcare ecosystem that results in accessible, timely, personalized, and high-value experiences for patients and providers.

With more than 20 years of experience delivering results in healthcare IT, Jason’s depth of experience in project management, stakeholder engagement, business transformation, and solution architecture has supported clients in solving their biggest problems by leveraging technologies, including digital twins, digital front doors, enterprise applications, provincial clinical viewers, and provincial registries and repositories.

Jason received a BSc in computer science with a specialization in software engineering.