Innovations in primary care. Dr. Berkowitz also calls himself "Change Doctor" and "Dr. Lyle." He's an internist with a particular knack for IT. He has written a lot about how other physicians can successfully adopt their EMR systems, and we love it that he's against "grand interoperability goals". He calls it over-interoperability. A few years ago, Dr. Lyle had a patient named Peter Szollosi, a Chicago businessman who worked with the real estate developer, Sam Zell. The illness was complicated, and Mr. Szollosi died, but not before his family decided to establish a nonprofit to advance healthcare in his memory. This is how the Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program came about. At SHIP Dr. Lyle is working on web tools to help physicians share information. An example is ExpectED: these are digital "expect notes" that doctors send to an ER in advance of a patient's arrival. It's an electronic "hand off" that saves time and reduces risk of errors at the point of admission. 

Blogging on over-interoperability:

"We better be careful what we wish for! Because if I get every piece of data for every patient, I will never get through my day."