Dr. Capponi is a General Internist focused on improving health through information technology.  From 2004 to 2014 he held roles of Enterprise-wide CMIO and Assistant Vice President for Clinical Information Systems for New York City’s municipal hospital system. There he implemented population-health programs including patient registries, designed clinical decision support applications, and created data warehouses for monitoring quality and outcomes and executed a System-Wide acquisition of Epic to replace their legacy EMR.   At the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Capponi continued to focus on HIT as a value-driver through innovative care models, while also promoting increased usability and safety.  He also participates in oversight of Epic implementations within newly acquired hospitals and affiliated practices.  At SCL Health, Dr. Capponi is focusing on updating an older install of Epic at an eight-hospital system and leveraging the platform to provide greater usability, clinical decision support, and advanced prediction capability.  Prior to his work in informatics, he served as a medical director for a 150-provider practice and a 210-bed skilled nursing facility.

Dr. Capponi received his undergraduate and medical education at New York University. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics, a fellow in the American College of Physicians, and has held faculty positions at NYU School of Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic Learner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

Posted November 2019