Lyle Berkowitz MD, BSE

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 Back9 Healthcare Consulting, where he helps healthcare systems, companies and investors rethink problems and solutions. Special areas of focus include innovation strategies and tactics, digital health technologies, workflow automation, telehealth, electronic medical record optimization, and precision medicine.

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 led 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.