Lyle Berkowitz, MD

Current

• Program Director at Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program
• President and CEO at Back 9 Healthcare Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
• Attending Physician; Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems for NMPG at Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Past

• Medical Director at Proxicom
• President and Co-Founder at ApolloHealth
• Medical Director at Advanced Health

Education

• Northwestern Memorial Hospital
• University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
• University of Pennsylvania

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Lyle Berkowitz, MD’s Summary

-Clinical experience: Primary Care Internal Medicine Physician; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago.

-Curren clinical Informatics and management positions include serving as the Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems for the largest primary care group in Chicago as well as program director for the non-profit Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program (SHIP); Past experience includes: Medical Director for an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) vendor, co-founder and CEO of a start-up venture that focused on Internet-based data collection and analysis, and Medical Director for a global Internet consulting company.

-Academic informatics background includes research in medical decision making and medical record theories, and informatics training at both the University of Illinois College of Medicine and Harvard Medical School.

Thought Leadership
An active speaker and author of multiple articles addressing topics such as electronic health records (EHR); physician adoption strategies; Internet strategies in healthcare; Using Clinical IT tools to support efficiency, quality and financials; New business models for supporting IT in healthcare; etc.... Also a contributing author to the American College of Physician's book entitled "Electronic Medical Records" (wrote the chapter "Physician Adoption Strategies").

Serves on the editorial boards of Healthcare Informatics magazine and on the Advisory Board for the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS). More info at www.DrLyle.com

Lyle Berkowitz, MD’s Specialties:

Healthcare informatics consulting. I work with hospital systems, IT vendors, and pharmaceutical companies to help them optimally use information technologies to achieve their goals (eg improving efficiency, quality and financial metrics). Projects focus on clinical information systems (e.g. Electronic Health Records) and related Internet/Intranet applications. A special expertise is helping to create tools and strategies to ensure physician and patient adoption.

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