Larry Ozeran, MD

Larry Ozeran, MD, FAMIA has a professional arc that begins as a software developer for a Silicon Valley company down the road from Apple. After 3 years (2 years fully remote), medical school at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine ended the job, but software development was now a passion. During surgery residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, Dr. Ozeran developed an Electronic Health Record system for the liver transplant team. This EHR ran on a laptop and connected by modem to the IBM transcription system and Sunquest Lab system using a customized version of Kermit and screen scraping. In his commitment to using his skills to make a positive difference, Dr. Ozeran moved to rural Northern California to serve a community with a surgeon shortage. Here he worked for Sutter North Medical Group as a general surgeon focused on emergency services and trauma. Dr. Ozeran served in several leadership roles: as a member of both Boards of Directors (the medical group and separate hospital), Surgery Department Chair, numerous medical group committees (including Bylaws), and numerous hospital committees (including Bylaws and with chair roles). He played a system-wide role in the EHR selection process on several committees, including as Chair of the Transcription / Save Data subcommittee. Prior to retiring from clinical practice to focus on Clinical Informatics, Inc., Dr. Ozeran had a solo practice for 5 years and worked in a rural health center for 2 years.

Dr. Ozeran founded Clinical Informatics, Inc, in 2000, recently celebrating its 25th anniversary serving healthcare entities, government agencies, and startup companies with guidance on strategy, policy and innovation. He is passionate about impacting policy to promote health equity and effectiveness. This can be seen in the organizational activity below:

California Medical Association (since 1992)
* Board of Directors local Medical Society, President 3 times, Chair Bylaws Committee
* Delegate to annual House of Delegates, 18 years
* Chair of President’s Forum (led statewide meetings of all county society presidents)
* Santa Barbara Care Data Exchange 1996 (co-led CMA project with CMA Executive Director)

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) (since 1998)
* Public Policy Committee (2010-12, 2017-19)
* Regional Informatics Action Working Group (to expand AMIA national policy efforts to state level policy) – co-founder, chair (2011-2015)
* Fellow of AMIA (2019)

Statewide policy efforts (interoperability, health information exchange, ARRA support)
(Award for meritorious service to the State in Health IT initiatives 2009.)
- California eHealth Collaborative, steering committee 2009
- California Health and Human Services Agency, Health IT initiatives 2009 – 2013
- CalOHII Policy Steering Team 2011 – 2016, co-Chair 2014-2016
- Co-chair HIE finance workgroup 2009 - 2010
- Cal eConnect - Policy Advisory Group May 2010 – 2012
- CalHIPSO (California Health Information Partnership and Services Organization) Physician Advisory Council 2011 – 2013
- State of California, Office of Technology Services - CalOHI / CalRHIO joint IT project
- CALINX (CALifornia INformation eXchange) 1996-2000

University of California, Davis Health System Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery, affiliated with the Health Informatics Program 2009 – 2012

HIMSS Public Policy Committee (2012-2014, Vice Chair 2014)

End Burnout Group (since 2021)
* co-founder, member leadership team focused on identifying and eliminating the root causes of clinician burnout
* originated after international panel on burnout presented at AMIA 2021 conference
* current priority is to end prior authorization – publishing articles and sending letters to state and federal officials

Advisor to health technology startups
* advised 4 teams in UC Davis PLASMA competition since 2021 and each placed 1st or 2nd

Select publications

(The concept for this book originated from an AMIA annual meeting of the CIS WG.)
Leviss, J., Kaplan, B., Ozeran, L., Rose, E., Silverstein, S., & Gugerty, B. (Eds.). (2010). H.I.T. or Miss: Lessons Learned from Health Information Technology Implementations (1st Edition). American Health Information Management Association.

Jackson, B. R., et al, (2025). Ethical Dimensions of Clinical Data Sharing by U.S. Health Care Organizations for Purposes beyond Direct Patient Care: Interviews with Health Care Leaders. Appl. Clin. Inform., 16(1), 90-100. doi: 10.1055/a-2432-0329. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39362293/

Ozeran, L. & Schreiber, R., (2023). The HIPAA Deidentification Exception Must Go, Journal of the Society for Clinical Data Management, 3(S1). doi: https://doi.org/10.47912/jscdm.231
https://www.jscdm.org/article/id/231/

Arvisais-Anhalt, S., et al., (2023). Paging the Clinical Informatics Community: Respond STAT to Dobbs v . Jackson's Women's Health Organization. Appl. Clin. Inform., 14(1), 164–171. doi: 10.1055/a-2000-7590 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36535703/

Ozeran, L. & Schreiber, R., (2021)
Reduce Burnout by Eliminating Billing Documentation Rules to Let Clinicians be Clinicians: A Clarion Call to Informaticists. Appl. Clin. Inform. 12(01): 73-75 (2021)
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33535252/

Ozeran, L., Solomonides, A. & Schreiber, R., (2021). Privacy versus Convenience: A Historical Perspective, Analysis of Risks, and an Informatics Call to Action. Appl. Clin. Inform., 12(02), 274-284. doi: 10.1055/s-0041-1727197
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33951741/

Ozeran, L. & Schreiber, R., (2020). An Alternate Viewpoint on Information Sharing: There is no Paradox. Appl Clin Inform. 2020 Aug;11(4):578-579. doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1715652.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32877944/

Selected posts
www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-seek-healthcare-transparency-larry-ozeran/
www.linkedin.com/pulse/fighting-privacy-does-matter-larry-ozeran-md-famia
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/115289