A dedicated physician with a passion for information technology, Dr. William Clifford is a leader in harnessing the power of IT to ensure patients receive coordinated, quality care.

He experienced first-hand the struggles doctors encounter: operating an efficient office through implementation of best practices; organizing comprehensive, sensitive information; and most importantly, providing meaningful patient care. Dr. Clifford applied his expertise to the development of electronic solutions for healthcare’s complex networking challenges, and to fully utilize data in improving quality of care.

Foremost in his accomplishments is his creation of the Medical Office Information System in 1990, years before electronic medical records became commonplace. When colleagues saw the benefits of his software, he unselfishly shared it with them and by the early 2000s it was in widespread use in medical practices throughout Northern BC. Now distributed by a non-profit organization, there are many users across BC.  It is ranked as the number one Medical Record System in Canada.

Now the Chief Medical Information Officer for Northern Health in Prince George, Dr. Clifford is involved in a number of technology projects. They include a ground-breaking information system for Northern Health community programs which will allow for secure messaging and real-time care planning between community workers/teams and family physicians. He is also the faculty lead on informatics for the Prince George Site of the UBC Family Practice Residency Program.