Paul Clifford is a managing director and healthcare informatics veteran with over 30 years’ experience translating clinical psychology, semantics and mathematical logic into practical population health analytics and outcome measurement tools. He has founded and led organizations including Imosphere and PC Informatics, driven national programs for mental health information systems, and served as the first Director of the British Psychological Society’s Centre for Outcomes, Research and Effectiveness. Paul combines deep clinical credibility across mental health, learning disability, social care and cancer research with product and company-building expertise in democratizing analytical software for quality improvement and resource allocation. His work emphasizes making routinely collected health and social care data actionable for clinicians, researchers and managers, using data science to allocate resources proportionally to need. A philosopher and psychoanalyst by training, he brings a long-standing interest in theories of mind and AI to novel approaches in healthcare information. Outside health IT he composes experimental sound and released an album as Wavamatics, reflecting a creative thread that informs his analytical work.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, 1st Philosophy 2-1 Paychology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, 1st Philosophy 2-1 Paychology at University of Cambridge
M.Phil Clin. Psych, Clinical Psychology, M.Phil Clin. Psych, Clinical Psychology at Institute Of Psychiatry
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