Oneview Healthcare Attracts U.S. Medical Talent to Global Leadership Team

Sydney, Australia, September 12, 2016 (Newswire.com) - ​​​​​Oneview Healthcare PLC (ASX:ONE) today announced the appointment of internationally recognized healthcare IT and innovation specialists Dr. Seth Bokser and Dr. Lyle Berkowitz to its Global Leadership Team to further grow and develop the company’s next generation technology for patient engagement.

Dr. Bokser, of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), has been appointed Chief Medical Officer and Chairman of Oneview’s International Advisory Board; and Dr. Berkowitz, of Chicago’s Northwestern Medicine (NM), has been appointed as a non-executive director, a member of Oneview’s International Advisory Board, and a special advisor on innovation. Both appointments are effective immediately.

"We are absolutely delighted to welcome Dr. Bokser and Dr. Berkowitz to our leadership ranks. We are honored and humbled to be able to attract such globally recognized professionals to the company and believe these appointments will prove transformational for our growth and product development globally."

Mark McCloskey, Oneview President and Founder

Oneview President and Founder Mark McCloskey said: “We are absolutely delighted to welcome Dr. Bokser and Dr. Berkowitz to our leadership ranks.  We are honored and humbled to be able to attract such globally recognized professionals to the company and believe these appointments will prove transformational for our growth and product development globally.”

Ireland-headquartered Oneview which listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in March, is a market-leading provider of innovative patient engagement and clinical workflow technology solutions to healthcare facilities in the U.S., Australia, and the Middle East.

Oneview has made significant inroads into the key U.S. healthcare market and in May, announced a U.S. headquarters in Chicago, IL, to service its rapidly growing U.S. client base.

“This dedicated innovation hub in Chicago will bring Dr. Bokser and Dr. Berkowitz’s product development efforts closer to our U.S. clients and will give them the tools and space to showcase their talent,” Mr. McCloskey added.

Dr. Bokser was UCSF’s Associate Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO), leading the University’s Benioff Children’s Hospital and Betty Irene Moore Women's Hospital.  Dr. Bokser will continue to devote 20% of his time to clinical practice as a pediatrician at UCSF, where Oneview’s patient engagement system has been in use for two years.

Dr. Bokser said: “I have had the pleasure of getting to know the people and products at Oneview for the past three years.  I am inspired by Oneview’s vision and am excited about working with the team to grow Oneview’s open, flexible, and patient-centered platform.

“I am thrilled to join an exceptionally talented leadership team and build on its success.  We have the complementary expertise, passion, and technology to be the global leader in this crucial, rapidly-growing sector of healthcare.”  

Dr. Berkowitz is the Director of Innovation at NM and has practiced internal medicine for more than 20 years in Chicago, helping lead NM’s IT and Innovation efforts for much of that time.

Dr. Berkowitz said: “Oneview’s success in the U.S. market in such a short space of time is testament to its product and leadership team, which I am very honored to be joining.  The nature of their early client wins clearly suggests they have a product that is redefining how we, as providers, think about patient facing technology.”

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About Oneview Healthcare:

Oneview Healthcare’s innovative Patient Engagement and Clinical Workflow Solution seamlessly integrates IT systems onto one high performance technology platform. It provides point-of-care access to those systems across end user devices, including bedside terminal, TV, tablet and smart phone.

Through its services and applications, which include treatment education for patients, entertainment and interactive patient care services, Oneview enables hospitals to optimize patient engagement, clinical outcomes and workflow efficiencies – revolutionizing the patient experience.

The Oneview Solution is now recognized globally as being one of the most innovative patient engagement products in the healthcare market. Testimony to this is the company’s partnerships with industry leaders worldwide including Microsoft and its growing list of customers in the U.S., Australia and the Middle East.

Oneview commenced operations in 2008 and has offices in Dublin, Chicago, Dubai, Sydney and Melbourne. Oneview Healthcare is headquartered in Dublin, the location for all its R&D and software development.

BIOGRAPHIES

Dr. Seth Bokser

Dr. Bokser is a practicing pediatric hospitalist and board-certified clinical informaticist.  He has been at the forefront of healthcare IT innovation for over a decade leading the design and build of electronic health records, data-integrated medical devices, telehealth, mobile health technologies, unified communications, and patient engagement applications.  Recently, Dr. Bokser led the vision and implementation of technology for UCSF’s state-of-the-art Mission Bay Medical Center - a $1.52 billion new-construction project, which opened in 2015.  He is passionate about using technology to empower patients, strengthen relationships, and inform partnered decision-making.      

Dr. Bokser received a Clinical Bioinformatics Certificate from Stanford University, a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University, Medical Doctorate from Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Lyle Berkowitz

Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS is an internal medicine physician and Director of Innovation for Northwestern Medicine, a nationally recognized health system that provides world-class care at seven hospitals and more than 100 locations in communities throughout Chicago.

Dr. Berkowitz has co-founded several healthcare IT companies and served as Chief Medical Officer for two publicly traded companies in the past.  He currently serves on the Corporate Board of healthfinch, the Governance Board of the Innovation Learning Network, the Advisory Board of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, and the Editorial Boards for both Clinical Innovation + Technology and Healthcare Innovation News. He is also co-editor of the book, Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare.

Dr. Berkowitz is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.  He received his Medical Doctorate from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Source: Oneview Healthcare