About

Paper to Pixels.
Bedside to Boardrooms.

Small firm. Strategic reach.

We didn't leave medicine.
We just found a bigger exam room.

Calyx Partners started with a practicing Med-Peds physician — board certified in both Pediatrics and Internal Medicine. Then somewhere along the way, an EHR workflow that wasn't working the way it should demanded attention. So we fixed it. Then another. And another.

“We didn't leave medicine. We just found a bigger exam room — one where the patient is the entire health system, and the treatment plan is strategic transformation.”

We built the VP of EHR Transformation & Optimization role at Sutter Health — a $12B system — from scratch. Created the title. Wrote the job description. Hired for it. It took conviction and clarity about what health systems actually needed at the intersection of clinical practice and technology. That work set the foundation for everything we do at Calyx Partners today.

Epic named our founder Physician of the Year in 2013. We've served as interim CMIO at NYC Health + Hospitals, Guthrie Clinic, and KeyCare. We've coached CMIOs at every stage — from newly-titled physicians finding their footing to experienced leaders ready to accelerate their impact.


Credentials

David K. Butler, MD FAMIA

Founder & CEO, Calyx Partners, LLC

Board Certifications

Internal Medicine & Pediatrics (Med-Peds)

Fellowship

Applied Clinical Informatics

Recognition

Epic Physician of the Year, 2013

Fellow, AMIA (FAMIA)

Previous Roles

System VP, EHR Transformation — Sutter Health • Interim CMIO — NYC H+H, Guthrie, KeyCare • The Chartis Group • Geisinger • Cleveland Clinic

20+

Years in Clinical Informatics

50+

CMIOs Coached & Mentored

$12B

System Scale at Sutter Health

#1

Epic Physician of the Year, 2013

Career Arc

Numbers that actually
matter.

Now

Founder, Calyx Partners

CMIO coaching, executive mentorship, the field guide nobody else would write

Sutter

VP, EHR Transformation & Optimization

$12B system. Created and named the role. First physician to bridge clinical and IT at system scale

2013

Epic Physician of the Year

Peer-nominated recognition — KidShare collaborative, e-learning, national Epic presentations

Multi

Interim CMIO Engagements

NYC Health + Hospitals, Guthrie Clinic, KeyCare, Cleveland Clinic, Cayuga Medical


Organizations Served

Where the work
has been done.

Sutter Health

VP, EHR Transformation & Optimization — $12B system

Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Strategic EHR partner to CIO/CMIO

NYC Health + Hospitals

Enterprise CMIO services, CDS strategy

Guthrie Clinic

Interim CMIO, Physician Black Bag Series (4.8/5 rating)

KeyCare

EHR optimization, 50% antibiotic reduction, 35% metric improvement

UC Irvine & UC San Diego

Epic governance advisory



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