Thomas Stafford. Vice President and CIO of Halifax Health (Daytona Beach, Fla.). Mr. Stafford has logged several accomplishments as vice president and CIO of Halifax Health, overseeing a period of unprecedented change and growth in healthcare technology at the hospital. He served as the hospital’s manager of the project office for seven years before being named CIO in January 2014, where he redesigned communication workflow and improved real-time collaboration between physicians and other team members. He also drove the initiative to adopt secure, HIPAA-compliant texting and currently leads a project to measure the impact of interoperability between the hospital’s EHR, predictive alerting and real-time communication system. More recently, Mr. Stafford was able to coordinate communications when Hurricane Matthew hit Florida in 2016 to manage patient overflow from three other hospitals that closed during the disaster.
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