About
Board-certified internal medicine physician, Chief Health Informatics Officer, and U.S. Navy veteran, advising on clinical technology from the perspective of someone who has used it, led it, and implemented it.
Professional biography
Dr. Benperlas’s professional background spans frontline medicine, surgery, diagnostic technology, executive healthcare informatics, and digital healthcare transformation.
He has seen the same problem from several positions. He has assisted in surgery as a Navy surgical technician, trained in nuclear medicine, cared for patients as an internist, and led clinical informatics as a physician executive. Each role offered a different view of how technology shapes clinical work, for better and for worse.
The result is a working understanding of clinical technologies from the perspectives of the four groups whose experience determines whether they succeed: clinicians, leadership, implementation teams, and patients.
Career path
Each stage added a perspective that now informs the consulting work.
Dr. Benperlas began his career in healthcare as a U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman and Surgical Technician. The operating room teaches a lasting respect for process: every instrument has a place, every step has a reason, and every member of the team depends on the others. It is where he first learned how much good care relies on well-designed work.
He went on to earn a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Medicine, a discipline in which clinical decisions depend directly on sophisticated equipment, careful protocols, and the quality of the data produced. It gave him a practical understanding of how diagnostic tools behave in practice.
Dr. Benperlas earned his medical degree at the Medical University of Lublin and is a board-certified internal medicine physician. Internal medicine is the specialty of complexity: many conditions, many medications, many sources of information. It is also where the daily burden of documentation and the electronic health record is felt most directly.
As a Chief Health Informatics Officer, he has provided physician leadership for clinical informatics, including electronic health record modernization and optimization, experience in Epic and Oracle Health/Cerner environments, clinical AI evaluation and implementation, and healthcare workflow optimization.
Today he advises healthcare organizations and technology developers independently, bringing clinical, technical, and executive perspectives to decisions about clinical AI, EHR modernization, and digital health.
Consulting philosophy
A technology is judged by what happens when a busy clinician uses it with a real patient, not by how it performs in a demonstration. Every assessment starts from the point of care and works outward.
Recommendations are not tied to any vendor, platform, or reseller arrangement. Clients receive an honest reading of the situation, including when the right answer is to wait.
Physicians adopt tools they trust and that respect their time. Engagement, training, and governance are treated as central to the work rather than tasks for after go-live.
Findings are prioritized, written in plain language, and summarized for executives. The aim is a decision your organization can make with confidence, and a path your teams can follow.
Dr. Benperlas also provides patient-facing medical services, including second opinions and telemedicine, through a separate practice at mdsos.com. This website is for organizations seeking consulting services and does not offer clinical care.
If your organization is weighing a clinical technology investment, a discovery call is a low-commitment way to test the fit.