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Lyle Berkowitz

Chief Executive Officer

Keycare

Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS is a primary care physician, a healthcare innovator, a futurist, a digital health expert and a serial entrepreneur with a passion for creating real world solutions which improve the quality and efficiency of the healthcare system for both patients and physicians.

Dr. Berkowitz is the Chief Executive Officer of Keycare.

Dr. Berkowitz spent many years as a Physician Executive helping to lead Informatics and Innovation efforts at Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, a multi-hospital health system with a top 10 academic medical center at its core.  He has rolled out and optimized both Epic and Cerner EMRs, as well as help lead projects involving everything from population health and data analytics to executive health and precision medicine. He was a long-time primary care physician at Northwestern's Bucktown office, and remains the Founder & Executive Director of the non-profit Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program (SHIP) at Northwestern, one of the nation's first healthcare innovation programs.

Dr. Berkowitz has co-founded several healthcare startups and is the founder and chairman of healthfinch, a software company which optimizes clinical workflow efficiency within EMRs like Epic, Allscripts, Cerner and AthenaHealth. He additionally serves on the Board of Directors for OneView Healthcare, a patient engagement technology company.  Dr. Berkowitz also spent several years as the Chief Medical Officer and EVP of Product Strategy for MDLIVE, one of the nation's largest telehealth medical groups, where he helped grow consult volume by 500%, increased patient satisfaction by 60%, tripled provider satisfaction, created one of the nation's best telehealth quality program, launched a national virtual primary care offering, and raised $50M in working capital.

Dr. Berkowitz was editor and author of the first book exploring the intersection healthcare IT and Innovation, and is a nationally recognized writer and speaker on healthcare innovation and informatics. In recognition of his work, Dr. Berkowitz has picked up a few awards over his career:

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Professional Credentials

Dr. Berkowitz is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. He received his MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and has a Biomedical Engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He has achieved Fellowship rank in both the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the American College of Physicians (ACP).

For Fun
To keep things interesting, Dr. Berkowitz also spent many years as a physician consultant to a wide variety of movie, television and theatrical productions in Chicago, including Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Chicago Med, The Dark Knight, Batman v. Superman, Transformers 3 & 4, My Best Friend’s Wedding, The Producers, Million Dollar Quartet, US Marshalls, Ocean’s 11 and 12, ER, and many more.

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We don’t have a shortage of doctors. We have a shortage of using them efficiently. The more that we can use technology to enable automation, the easier and quicker we’ll get to the point where everyone is going to get the care that they need in a cost-effective way.
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What we really need to think is rethink the problem. If the problem is, ‘How do we take care of someone, with a routine, repeatable type of issue in as safe and effective, high-quality, low-cost way as possible?’ That problem opens up a whole new world for us.
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