Joseph Mendez

Vice President, Innovation, Information Management Services & Chief Information Officer

Joseph Mendez is a member of the FNHA Senior Executive Team. Over the past 23 years Mr. Mendez has been in a number of senior executive health-related roles. Most recently, he was the Vice President of Healthtech Management Consultants. In this capacity, Joseph led and supported a number of high profile eHealth, IM/IT and Shared Services initiatives in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick. Prior to Healthtech Consultants, Joseph was the Vice President / CIO for IM/IT services with Northern Health. After having successfully established Northern Health IM/IT services and implemented one of Northern Health largest most complex organization-wide projects – Health Link North, Joseph was seconded to the Provincial Health Services Authority to serve as the IM/IT Executive Lead. In this role, Joseph led the establishment of the Health Shared Services BC – Information Technology Services. Along with his passion for IM/IT and developing new organizations, Joseph has helped develop and implement a number of Provincial eHealth initiatives, many of which are now in use, effectively supporting improved health access and quality care. Mr. Mendez is married with two children. He has a great passion for classic French cuisine cooking, traveling and golfing. Joseph has Bachelor of Science and a Masters of Health Administration.