Turning Healthcare Priorities Into Programs That Work.

Program Design | Workforce | Implementation | Innovation

JNI Consulting helps healthcare, public health, and public sector organizations turn complex priorities into practical programs by connecting strategy, workforce, technology, and implementation.

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28 Years in Healthcare | 20+ EHR Implementations Across Five Platforms | Rural and Critical Access Hospital Experience | Nurse-Owned Since 2012

Healthcare Strategy Grounded in Real World Experience

JNI Consulting brings together clinical experience, healthcare operations, workforce strategy, technology, informatics, program leadership, and implementation to help organizations move complex initiatives forward. We understand both the strategy and the reality of implementing it.

When You Have a Priority But Need to Make It Work

You may know what needs to change, but need help turning the priority into an executable plan. JNI can help when you:
JNI bridges the gap between what an organization wants to accomplish and what it takes to make it happen.

What We Do

Program Design

Program Design

Turning priorities into practical programs

Good programs fail when they are designed on paper and handed to people who were never part of the plan. JNI designs from the frontline up. As a nurse-owned firm led by an implementation executive, JNI brings an unusual combination: knowledge of how care is actually delivered, and the operational discipline to build around it. JNI creates new programs from the ground up and strengthens existing ones, designing the structure, workflows, roles, measures, and funding alignment together so nothing breaks at launch. The result is a program your team can deliver, your leaders can measure, and your organization can scale or replicate.

Workforce

Workforce

Building stronger workforce strategies

JNI connects workforce development, training, onboarding, leadership development, adoption, and sustainability with the operational realities of public, private, and healthcare organizations. Technology changes fast, and people need skill and support to keep up. We build programs that prepare teams to adopt new tools and keep performing long after go-live. Our Readivance™ AI Essentials training gives staff practical, safe AI skills in formats from a one-hour masterclass to a full course. We also deliver leadership development, role-based onboarding, change support, and health careers programming for schools and communities. Every engagement includes measures and follow-up so new skills last.

Implementation

Implementation

Moving strategy from paper into practice

Most initiatives do not fail in planning. They fail in the first 90 days of execution. JNI has led more than 20 EHR implementations across five platforms, including rural and critical access hospitals, and brings that discipline to every engagement. We manage the change, coordinate the work, align workflows, train the people who will carry it forward, and stay through adoption and optimization. The result is an initiative that holds after go-live, not one that slips back to old habits.

Innovation

Innovation

Connecting clinical reality with technology and new ways of working

New technology only creates value when it fits how care is delivered. JNI evaluates AI, digital health, and emerging tools through a clinical lens first, asking what the frontline needs, what the workflow can absorb, and what the workforce is ready for. From AI readiness to new care models, we design innovations that clinicians adopt, leaders can govern, and organizations can sustain.

Supporting expertise

Healthcare Technology and Informatics

JNI brings deep clinical informatics and healthcare technology experience to organizations navigating EHR, digital health, AI, and technology enabled transformation.

Our approach considers more than the technology itself. We consider workflow, workforce readiness, clinical realities, adoption, governance, implementation, and the ability of organizations to sustain change.

The Workforce Is Part of the Solution

Healthcare organizations cannot successfully implement new strategies, technologies, or programs without considering the people responsible for delivering them.

JNI connects workforce strategy with operations, technology, training, implementation, and organizational priorities to build practical, sustainable solutions designed around the realities of healthcare.

Who We Serve

Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare Organizations

Health systems, hospitals, physician organizations, healthcare practices, and healthcare leaders navigating transformation, workforce, operational, technology, and implementation priorities.

Public Health and Community Health

Public Health and Community Health

Organizations designing and implementing initiatives that improve health outcomes, access, workforce capacity, community health, and sustainable impact.

Government and Public Sector

Government and Public Sector

Organizations managing healthcare, public health, workforce, technology, community, and other complex initiatives that require healthcare expertise and implementation capability.

Rural Healthcare

Rural Healthcare

Organizations navigating workforce constraints, technology adoption, access, operational challenges, and sustainable program implementation in rural and underserved communities.

Healthcare Technology

Healthcare Technology

Technology organizations that need clinical insight, healthcare workflow expertise, informatics, implementation strategy, or healthcare market perspective.

Workforce and Education

Workforce and Education

Organizations developing healthcare workforce pipelines, education initiatives, training programs, leadership development, and workforce sustainability strategies.

Why JNI

Healthcare Strategy Grounded in Real World Experience

Healthcare Strategy Grounded in Real World Experience

Bedside to boardroom credibility.

Clinical and Operational Perspective

Clinical and Operational Perspective

We understand frontline care and executive decision making.

Workforce and Technology Alignment

Workforce and Technology Alignment

We consider the people who must use and sustain the solution.

Implementation Experience

Implementation Experience

We help organizations move from strategy and planning into execution, adoption, optimization, and measurable improvement.

Practical Solutions

Practical Solutions

JNI focuses on solutions that can work in the real world, not strategies that stay on paper.

Cross Sector Perspective

Cross Sector Perspective

Our experience spans healthcare, technology, workforce, public health, education, community initiatives, and public sector environments.

The JNI Approach

Understand. Assess. Design. Implement. Improve.
Understand

Understand

Understand the organization, people, environment, and challenge.

Assess

Assess

Assess gaps, opportunities, risks, and readiness.

Design

Design

Design the strategy, program, workflow, or solution.

Implement

Implement

Implement the plan into action.

Improve

Improve

Improve, measure, and sustain what works.

Is Your Program Ready to Move From Strategy to Implementation?

Use the JNI Program Readiness Checklist to assess whether your organization has the key elements in place to move a healthcare program from planning into implementation.

    WE ARE NURSE-OWNED

    A Healthcare Consulting Firm Built From the Frontline Up

    JNI Consulting is a nurse owned healthcare strategy and implementation firm founded by Shelli Ann McKenzie, MS, RN, PMP, CPHIMS.

    With more than 28 years of healthcare experience, Shelli Ann brings a unique combination of clinical leadership, healthcare operations, workforce development, health informatics, technology, program management, implementation, and education.

    JNI was built around a simple understanding: healthcare organizations do not need more ideas that look good on paper. They need practical strategies, programs, and implementation approaches that work in the real world.

    JNI helps organizations move from complex challenges to practical, sustainable solutions.

    Speaking

    chamberlain keynote

    Shelli-Ann McKenzie speaks on clinical informatics leadership, EHR and AI implementation readiness, healthcare workforce development, and the technology preparation-to-practice gap in nursing and healthcare organizations.

    Available for keynotes, panels, and workshops at health IT and nursing informatics conferences.

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    Tell us what you are trying to accomplish, where you are stuck, or what you are preparing to implement.
    Every engagement starts with a conversation about the challenge, the opportunity, and what success needs to look like.




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