About Captivant

Veteran-Owned. Healthcare-Focused. Outcome-Driven.

Our mission is to empower healthcare organizations to modernize the technology beyond the EHR by delivering expert advisory, project leadership, vendor oversight, and implementation support. We streamline complex integrations, optimize workflows, and create measurable, lasting outcomes.
Who we are

Where clinical, operational, and technical teams align.

Captivant helps health systems move from strategy to action across everything beyond the EHR, combining deep clinical insight, technical expertise, and disciplined governance.
Healthcare Technology Leadership
Guiding initiatives across clinical, operational, and ancillary systems.
Complex Transitions
Supporting modernization, consolidation, integration, and organizational change.
Program Leadership
Providing governance, coordination, and execution across complex initiatives.
Corporate business team strategy meeting in office
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ABOUT THE FOUNDER

David Hodson, RN, MSHI, PMP — Founder & Principal Advisor

David Hodson founded Captivant Consulting to bring structure and leadership to the part of healthcare technology that too often goes unmanaged: everything beyond the EHR. Across more than 20 years in healthcare — the last decade-plus in digital health — he has led the enterprise programs where clinical care, technology, and operations collide, and built Captivant to focus squarely on the ancillary applications, integrations, and third-party systems where delivery risk, data integrity, and go-live exposure concentrate.David's perspective is distinctive because his path is. He began at the bedside as a registered nurse, moved into clinical informatics, and went on to lead enterprise PMO, program, and solution-architecture work across major multi-hospital health systems, a healthcare technology vendor, and national healthcare IT consultancies.That progression — clinician to informaticist to enterprise program leader — lets him translate fluently between clinical, operational, and IT stakeholders and keep complex initiatives aligned and decisions defensible.His recent work centers on healthcare M&A integration and EHR transitions across Epic and Cerner environments at multi-hospital scale: building enterprise application and interface inventories, mapping HL7 and FHIR dependencies, planning TSA exits, and leading the safe rationalization, archival, and decommissioning of legacy systems under compressed timelines. He maintains an active RN license and is a certified Project Management Professional, with a master's in health informatics.A United States Marine Corps veteran, David built Captivant as a VBE- and VOSB-certified veteran-owned firm, carrying a mission-ready mindset — accountability, adaptability, and measurable results — into every engagement. Captivant is deliberately vendor-neutral: no software resale, no client-data retention, and every deliverable built for full client ownership.
Based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Our story

How we got here.

Captivant was founded on a simple observation: healthcare organizations invest heavily in the EHR, but many of their most difficult challenges exist in the systems surrounding it. Clinical integrations, ancillary applications, operational platforms, and technology transitions often receive less attention despite their critical role in patient care and organizational performance.
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Founded on a clear need

Created to bring clarity and structure where organizations struggled with vendor management, implementation, and workflow inefficiencies.
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Built around everything beyond the EHR

While many firms focus on the core EHR, Captivant specializes in the ancillary applications, clinical integrations, and operational systems that surround it, filling a critical market gap.
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Built for better decisions and better execution

Today we pair strategic advisory, disciplined execution, and healthcare data intelligence to deliver measurable outcomes aligned with organizational goals.
Our Approach

The Captivant Lifecycle.

Every engagement follows the same proven methodology, meeting you at any stage, from first assessment to safe retirement.

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Discover
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Plan
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Implement
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Optimize
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Retire