Thomas della Flora

About Thomas della Flora

A Senior IT Executive possessing over 30+ years of achievement, providing healthcare organizations a proven and experienced transformational leader. PatientFirst. In my past and current roles, I have driven the integration of IT strategic plans with the Health System’s overall business strategy, thus contributing to overall market and revenue growth. Furthermore, I possess hands-on experience in planning, developing, acquiring, and implementing effective technology solutions. Through evaluation of new technologies and managing relationships, I identify competitive advantages to address clinical, financial, and operational opportunities, while managing costs and risks. Adept at all leadership challenges including, physician engagement, crisis management, cybersecurity/compliance, leadership development/succession planning, problem-solving, and contract negotiations. Experienced in collaboration and consensus building, benchmarking, capacity planning, and cross-functional team engagement, as well as project and resource management. Skilled in the development of strategic plans for operations with a focus on customer service and quality. Lastly, experienced with planning, contract negotiations, implementation, optimization, and/or supporting of Epic, GE Centricity, Allscripts, Cerner, and McKesson.

Experience

1. VP & CIO

   Baptist Health Care

   Sep 2021 — Present · Pensacola, FL, US

   Responsible for leading Baptist Health Care’s Information Technology division, ensuring BHC’s information and technical strategies are aligned and the right technology solutions are available to meet business demands. In addition, provides the technical vision to complement BHC’s mission, vision and strategic imperatives, setting the direction for the company’s technologies, while bringing scalability, stability and efficiency to our infrastructure and advancing systems, automation and the integration of technology.

Education

• The University of Toledo

  B.S Busines Services and Business Administration, Business

  1984 — 1988

• Owens Community College

  Associate's degree, Computer Science

  1982 — 1984

Skills

• Strategic Planning
• Hl7
• Revenue Cycle
• Healthcare Management
• Informatics
• Hipaa
• Project Management
• Visio
• Emr
• Management
• Team Building
• Process Improvement
• Budgets
• Customer Service
• Healthcare Information Technology (Hit)
• Project Planning
• Software Documentation
• Access
• Leadership
• Servers
• Healthcare
• Ambulatory
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Electronic Medical Record (Emr)
• Hospitals
• Ehr
• Budgeting
• U.s. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (Hipaa)
• System Administration
• Networking