Dr. Douglas Kingsford
Chief Medical Information Officer and Executive Medical Director, Interior Health
Dr Kingsford is Chief Medical Information Officer and Executive Medical Director at Interior Health. He is a primary care physician with an Electronic Engineering PhD in artificial intelligence and extensive experience with software engineering, primarily in clinical informatics. His primary interests are in artificial intelligence, machine learning, interoperability, integrated care and workflow coordination.
Provincially, Dr Kingsford sits on the IMIT Standing Committee, Health Informatics Standards Standing Committee, Health Authority Integration Steering Committee, Clinical Oversight Committee, EMR Working Group and the Joint Collaborative Committee IM/IT Clinical Advisory Working Group, and is co-chair of the Information Privacy and Security Standing Committee. He is also a member of Canada Health Infoway’s Digital Health Alliance Steering Committee.
Dr Kingsford is Chief Medical Information Officer and Executive Medical Director at Interior Health. He is a primary care physician with an Electronic Engineering PhD in artificial intelligence and extensive experience with software engineering, primarily in clinical informatics. His primary interests are in artificial intelligence, machine learning, interoperability, integrated care and workflow coordination.
Provincially, Dr Kingsford sits on the IMIT Standing Committee, Health Informatics Standards Standing Committee, Health Authority Integration Steering Committee, Clinical Oversight Committee, EMR Working Group and the Joint Collaborative Committee IM/IT Clinical Advisory Working Group, and is co-chair of the Information Privacy and Security Standing Committee. He is also a member of Canada Health Infoway’s Digital Health Alliance Steering Committee.
