Lyle L. Berkowitz
Lyle L. Berkowitz (born March 14, 1966) is a practicing internal medicine physician and an informaticist.
Berkowitz has a background as a clinician, healthcare IT strategist, consultant and entrepreneur.
Berkowitz currently serves as the Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems for the largest primary care group in the city of Chicago, the Program Director for the Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program (SHIP),[1] and also the President of an independent healthcare IT strategy consulting firm.
In 2008, HealthLeaders[2] magazine highlighted Berkowitz as part of their annual Twenty People Who Make Healthcare Better,[3] a list of “individuals who are making a difference in today’s complex healthcare world”. And in 2009, Healthspottr[4] chose him as one of the Future Health Top 100,[5] their list of top innovators and change agents in healthcare.
Background[edit]
Since 1995, Berkowitz has served as an Internal Medicine Physician and Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems for Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group (NMPG),[6] the largest primary care group in the city of Chicago. As the Medical Director of CIS, he has helped lead an enterprise wide EMR project resulting in a paperless clinical workflow for all their physicians.
Berkowitz has researched and consulted in the field of medical informatics throughout his professional career. In 1996, he founded an independent healthcare IT strategy consulting firm, Back 9 Healthcare Consulting, Inc. As the CEO and President of Back 9, he has had a successful track record helping numerous large healthcare organizations, healthcare IT vendors and other relevant parties navigate the e-Healthcare landscape, from successfully creating and implementing clinical information systems to developing innovative strategies to overcome the barriers associated with physician and patient adoption of these systems.[citation needed]
Berkowitz is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine within the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, a Fellow in the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS),[7] sits on the board of advisors for the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS),[8] serves as an editorial board member for some of the industry's top publications, including Healthcare Informatics,[9] and serves as a physician advisor to the ABC News Medical Unit.[10]
Author and speaker[edit]
Berkowitz has authored multiple articles in the medical informatics space, with a particular focus on optimizing and creating tools and strategies for physician adoption of clinical information systems, highlighted by being chosen to write the chapter "Physician Adoption Strategies" in the American College of Physicians' book entitled Electronic Medical Records.[11] He has also contributed chapters to the HIMSS publication "Guide to the Electronic Medical Practice"[12] and sections for the HIMSS white paper on EMR Usability Principles.[13]
Berkowitz has been invited to share his thoughts on changing healthcare nationally and internationally. In August 2008 he was invited to be a Keynote Speaker at the Health Informatics Society of Australia's (HISA)[14] annual eHealth conference where he delivered the talk: "Enabling the Future for Care Delivery: Innovation Programs in Healthcare".[15] The Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference[16] was held in Chicago, Illinois in April 2009. Berkowitz was an invited speaker where he delivered a talk on "How to Improve EMRs and Incorporate Innovation in All We Do".[17] October 2009 saw him deliver the Keynote Address at the IT Optimization in HealthCare Conference[18] in Gran Melia, Puerto Rico. His talk was "EMRs and Innovation: What they Mean for the Future of Healthcare".
Information technology[edit]
As the Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems, Berkowitz helps to oversee a variety of information technology strategies and solutions that have resulted in improved physician utilization of computers for clinical, educational and communication purposes. Specifically, Berkowitz helps to manage a multi-million dollar ambulatory Electronic Medical Record (EMR) project, as well as an integrated secure patient messaging system that has enabled NMPG to become one of the most wired groups in the nation. Berkowitz also serves on the group's Quality Management Committee to help determine how to best improve quality using information technologies. He has designed, customized and used a variety of EMR systems over the past decade, and has been paperless in his own clinical practice since Fall of 2002.
Non-profit[edit]
When Berkowitz was treating Chicago businessman and creative director Peter Szollosi[19] for cancer, the two often discussed the fragmented state of healthcare. Szollosi's approach to problem solving meshed well with Berkowitz background in biomedical engineering and healthcare informatics, and the two often debated how they would reengineer healthcare with a particular focus on technology and innovative thinking—if only there was enough time and money to be truly innovative.
After Szollosi died in 2007, his friends and family approached Berkowitz about founding the Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program. With the support of several Chicago area businessmen, Berkowitz was able to found the non-profit Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program[20](SHIP). The charitable endeavor adopted Szollosi's mantra; "I don't care what you can't do". Their mission is to use creative thinking and diverse technologies to produce a better healthcare experience for patients, physicians and others associated with their care.
As the Program Director for the Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program, he and his team are focused on projects that use process methodologies and web-based tools to improve Information Sharing and Information Visualization across a clinical enterprise. In the Spring of 2008, they rolled out ExpectED;[21] a web based software application that allows physicians to electronically notify an emergency room of an incoming patient, and advance case-critical patient stats—the "Expect Note"—to the urgent care team. In the Spring of 2009, SHIP launched their second major project, The Inflection Navigator.[22] This combines an outpatient-based triage system with a web-based registry and tracking tool which supports a navigator guiding patients through acute healthcare inflection points, such as the new diagnosis of cancer or atrial fibrillation.
Current editorial and advisory contributions[edit]
Berkowitz sits on the Editorial Board of Healthcare Informatics magazine,[23] and past editorial board involvement includes Modern Physician[24] and e.MD[25] periodicals. Berkowitz also serves on the Advisory Board for the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS)[26] and is on the Board of Directors of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Foundation.[27] Berkowitz additionally serves as a physician advisor to the ABC Medical News Unit[28] and also contributes regularly to a blog hosted by HIStalk,[29] which is dedicated to Healthcare IT news and opinion.
Personal facts[edit]
Also known as the "Change Doctor" because of his love of innovation, Berkowitz has a blog[30] dedicated to his thoughts, anecdotes and experiences.
Born on March 14, 1966.
Brother Sean M. Berkowitz, most known as the lead prosecutor for the Enron Task Force.
Mother Naomi Berkowitz, for the past 20 years was the Executive Director of the American Brain Tumor Association[31]—retired June 30, 2008.
Berkowitz is married and has two children.
Extras[edit]
Physician consultant to a wide variety of movie, television and theatrical productions, including The Producers, Million Dollar Quartet, Public Enemies, Wanted, The Beast, A Nightmare on Elm St. (2009), Humboldt Park, The Unborn, The Jamie Foxx Tour, The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, Stranger than Fiction, Road to Perdition, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Barbershop I and II, Soul Food, Ocean’s 11 and 12, The Express, Quebec, The Weatherman, Ice Harvest, What Women Want, Chain Reaction, The Day of the Jackal, Home Alone III, Hellcab, Payback, US Marshals, Hoods, Stir of Echoes, Message in a Bottle, Lord of the Dance, Streetcar Named Desire, Prison Break, Early Edition, Cupid, Save the Last Dance, ER, The Joan Cusack Show, Real World Chicago, Starting Over.[citation needed]
References[edit]
- ↑ Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program (SHIP)
- ↑ HealthLeaders
- ↑ Twenty People Who Make Healthcare Better
- ↑ Healthspottr
- ↑ Future Health Top 100
- ↑ Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group (NMPG)
- ↑ Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
- ↑ Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS)
- ↑ Healthcare Informatics
- ↑ ABC News Medical Unit
- ↑ Electronic Medical Records
- ↑ “Guide to the Electronic Medical Practice”
- ↑ EMR Usability Principles
- ↑ Health Informatics Society of Australia's (HISA)
- ↑ "Enabling the Future for Care Delivery: Innovation Programs in Healthcare"
- ↑ Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference
- ↑ "How to Improve EMRs and Incorporate Innovation in All We Do"
- ↑ IT Optimization in HealthCare Conference
- ↑ Peter Szollosi
- ↑ Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program
- ↑ ExpectED
- ↑ The Inflection Navigator
- ↑ Healthcare Informatics magazine
- ↑ Modern Physician
- ↑ e.MD
- ↑ Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems
- ↑ American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Foundation
- ↑ ABC Medical News Unit
- ↑ HIStalk
- ↑ blog
- ↑ American Brain Tumor Association
External links[edit]
- Dr. Berkowitz's Website, drlyle.com
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