Former MDLive CMO Lyle Berkowitz Joins Telehealth and Medicine Today

Peer review journal welcomes new Editor-in-Chief

Stamford – WEBWIRE – Thursday, May 28, 2020

Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS

The healthcare world has had massive adoption of telehealth in the past few months due to the COVID-19 crisis and I am very excited to help TMT in promoting great practices and spreading new ideas around the globe.” - Lyle Berkowitz, MD

The breakthrough international peer review journal Telehealth and Medicine Today (TMT) is excited to welcome its newest Editor-in-Chief, Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS. Dr. Berkowitz will have a special focus on primary care, physician satisfaction and process innovation. He joins fellow Editor-in-Chiefs, Amar Gupta, PhD (Technology, Policy & Regulation) and John Halamka, MD (Emergency & Hospital Medicine, Interoperability, & Device Innovation).

“We are pleased to have Dr. Berkowitz aboard,” stated Tory Cenaj, founder and journal publisher. “The journal is a great resource to learn how to implement, deploy and scale telehealth initiatives. Dr. Berkowitz has firsthand experience building a world class telehealth company and we are looking forward to bringing his experience and ideas to help support our readers.”

“The healthcare world has had massive adoption of telehealth in the past few months due to the COVID-19 crisis”, notes Dr. Berkowitz, “and I am very excited to help TMT in promoting great practices and spreading new ideas around the globe.”

Dr. Berkowitz is an avid telehealth influencer and consensus builder. He spent over 20 years as a primary care physician and physician executive in the informatics and innovation space at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, and spent the past several years as Chief Medical Officer at MDLIVE. He is currently the CEO of Back9 Healthcare Consulting and board member at Healthfinch and Oneview Healthcare.

John Halamka, MD, journal Editor-in-Chief added “I’ve worked with Dr. Lyle Berkowitz for over 20 years on informatics standards and innovation. I can think of no better editor for the telehealth topics we are going to face in a post pandemic world.”

About
Telehealth and Medicine Today (TMT) is a leading international peer review journal where multidisciplinary thought leaders, practitioners, and stakeholders converge to address strategic, medical, technical, economic, legal, regulatory and societal aspects of this growing health technology sector. The journal assists building knowledge and consensus to deploy and scale delivery services to achieve sustainable outcomes for affordable, accessible, and quality care for health consumers around the globe, implementing pragmatic approaches to issues such as interoperability, quality and safety of evolving technologies, business processes, and economic systems driving remote care in a value based system. A world-class review board endeavors to offer rapid peer-review (14 days per review round), and includes constructive commentary to strengthen work. TMT is published quarterly. The journal registers original research article provenance on the blockchain for authors to have a permanent and immutable public record of their work to share with the scientific research community at TMT+ARTiFACTS RESEARCH PORTAL.

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