Steve Berman serves as the Director of Business Development at Montefiore Medical Center's subsidiary, Emerging Health Information Technology. Mr Berman is leading an effort to develop a new model for getting solo and group practitioners to adopt electronic medical records (EMRs) that will provide a seamless flow of patient clinical data from the doctor's office to admitting hospitals at Montifiore. From 2004 through 2008, Mr Berman was involved in increasing clinical adoption in the area of remote tele-monitoring, primarly of chronically ill geriatric patients. Montefiore Medical Center is a full service, integrated delivery system caring for patients in a 1,491-bed medical center that includes four hospitals, a large home healthcare agency; the largest school health program in the US; a 22-site medical group practice integrated throughout the Bronx and Westchester; and a care management organization providing services to 179,000 health plan members.