Karen Shearing

Karen Shearing Email and Phone Number

Project Director at LikeMinds Consulting @ LikeMinds Consulting
PO Box 578, Balmain 2041,Australia
Karen Shearing's Location
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Canada
About Karen Shearing

Karen is a recognized health industry professional and a respected project leader. She is known for her deep knowledge of healthcare information systems, gained through her 28 years of experience in the healthcare sector. She is a team builder who uses a collaborative approach to achieve results. As a seasoned project manager, Karen creates an effective and integrated project structure where consultants and individuals from client organization’s teams work together towards a well defined result. Karen’s emphasis on knowledge transfer throughout a project ensures that organizations transitioned smoothly once the project is complete. As the Senior Vice President of Healthtech Consultants, Karen focused 18 years of her career mentoring and building a highly skilled team of information management professionals with considerable expertise in MEDITECH. She was responsible for both the Change Management and Project Management product lines. As Advisor to the Project Management Office she drove the continued refinement of robust project and change management methodologies. Karen was responsible for business development, sales, staff recruitment, vendor relationship management, mentoring, and project delivery for a team of consultants and a broad network of Associate consultants.

Karen Shearing's Current Company Details
LikeMinds Consulting

Likeminds Consulting

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Project Director at LikeMinds Consulting
PO Box 578, Balmain 2041,Australia
Website:
likeminds.com.au
Employees:
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Karen Shearing Work Experience Details
  • Likeminds Consulting
    Project Director
    Likeminds Consulting Aug 2022 - Present
    LikeMinds Consulting has been engaged by the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) to provide PACS project advisory and project management services related to the upgrade of their territory wide PACS system. LikeMinds looks forward to working with GNWT on this exciting initiative.
  • Likeminds Consulting
    Project Director
    Likeminds Consulting Aug 2019 - Dec 2021
    Halton Healthcare is an award winning healthcare organization comprised of three community hospitals and numerous community-based services in the growing urban and rural communities of Halton Hills, Milton, and Oakville. Together the three hospitals - Georgetown Hospital, Milton District Hospital, and Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital - serve a population of almost 400,000 residents. Halton Healthcare embarked on a transformational project to implement MEDITECH's Expanse platform "Together, transforming through connected experiences". The project encompassed multiple years and included the implementation of MEDITECH's latest web-based applications, computerized physician order entry and physician documentation. Karen provided overall project management leadership to greater than 20 core teams throughout the project lifecycle as a sub-contractor to Navin Haffty(NH). The partnership of Halton Healthcare, MEDITECH, and NH experienced unprecedented challenges during the implementation due to the far reaching impact of COVID-19 for over 2.5 years of the project lifecycle. The organizations demonstrated their resilience and nimbleness as they tackled each new barrier presented with creativity and professionalism and went live successfully on November 13, 2021 delivering on their project objectives.
  • Likeminds Consulting
    Project Director
    Likeminds Consulting Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
    Covina, California
    Karen lead a large 3-hospital organization as they transitioned from MEDITECH Magic to MEDITECH Expanse including WebAcute, WebED, and WebAMB as a sub-contractor to Navin, Haffty & Associates (NHA). Citrus Valley Health Partners in Covina, CA engaged NHA as their MEDITECH READY certified partner to provide guidance and leadership through a 13 member team of NHA Subject Matter Experts, each bringing expertise and experience gained through multiple MEDITECH 6.x READY and/or Pathway projects. Citrus Valley rolled out MEDITECH's Home Health and Hospice application March 1, 2018 and the remaining applications were deployed using a big bang approach on April 1, 2019.
  • Like Minds Consulting
    Senior Project Manager
    Like Minds Consulting Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
    Karen provided interim Project Manager resources to a Critical Access organization in Iowa as they transitioned from MEDITECH CS to 6.15 with WebAmbulatory in a Pathways implementation. These services were provided as a sub-contract to Navin, Haffty & Associates.
  • Likeminds Consulting
    Senior Project Manager
    Likeminds Consulting Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
    As a sub-contracted resource to Navin, Haffty & Associates Karen provided Project Management leadership to a MEDITECH CS to 6.15 with WebAmbulatory project in Kansas.
  • Likeminds Consulting
    Senior Project Manager
    Likeminds Consulting May 2015 - Mar 2017
    Toronto, Canada Area
    As a sub-contractor to Navin Haffty & Associates (NHA), Karen led a team of highly skilled NHA Consultants and Client team members on a MEDITECH Client Server to 6.15 Pathways project in Illinois. The implementation included the implementation of MEDITECH's web-based Ambulatory solution to greater than twenty physician practices with numerous specialities. The project was identified as the most significant project for the organization and was foundational to their overall transformation initiative in 2015 and 2016. The site went LIVE in February 2017.
  • Independent Healthcare Consultant
    Senior Project Manager
    Independent Healthcare Consultant Jan 2014 - May 2015
    Toronto, Canada Area
    As a Senior Project Manager with Navin, Haffty & Associates, Karen led a full hospital information system implementation (MEDITECH 6.1 READY) for a not-for-profit multi-facility organization in Mississippi, USA. This transformational project delivered full CPOE and physician documentation across all campuses on day 1 in a big bang Go Live.
  • Healthtech Consultants
    Senior Vice President
    Healthtech Consultants 1995 - Nov 2013
    Meditech planning, implementation project management, application support and optimization/operationaly review. Meditech 6.0, 6.1 experience.
  • Credit Valley Hospital
    Application Specialist
    Credit Valley Hospital 1987 - 1995
    Meditech Application Support for a number of different applications.
  • Credit Valley Hospital
    Senior Technologist - Special Chemistry
    Credit Valley Hospital 1985 - 1987

Karen Shearing Skills

Meditech Healthcare Information Technology Project Management Healthcare Change Management Informatics Ehr Process Improvement Leadership Healthcare Management Healthcare Consulting Hospitals Project Planning Integration It Strategy Health Information Exchange Strategic Planning Business Analysis Emr Healthcare Information Technology Communication Skills Team Building Business Process Improvement Electronic Medical Record Program Management Pmo

Karen Shearing Education Details

  • Michener Institute Of Medical Technology
    Michener Institute Of Medical Technology
    Mlt

Frequently Asked Questions about Karen Shearing

What company does Karen Shearing work for?

Karen Shearing works for Likeminds Consulting

What is Karen Shearing's role at the current company?

Karen Shearing's current role is Project Director at LikeMinds Consulting.

What schools did Karen Shearing attend?

Karen Shearing attended Michener Institute Of Medical Technology.

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Karen Shearing has skills like Meditech, Healthcare Information Technology, Project Management, Healthcare, Change Management, Informatics, Ehr, Process Improvement, Leadership, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Consulting, Hospitals.

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