Month: September 2014

Is it more important to have the right answer or to ask the right question? After the past few weeks interacting with our healthcare system, specifically its oncology components, it has become abundantly clear to me we are asking the wrong questions. A few years ago, at TEDxAustin, I...

Up until last Thursday, Chicago still belonged to just Maureen and I. As I wrote in “Our Story | The Windy City” before we left Austin, Maureen and I met in Chicago, were married here, had our first apartment and house here. After we landed on Thursday, though, at 4:30pm, we began...

20 years ago, Maureen and I drove from Chicago to Austin as we opened a new chapter in our lives together. We made the trek to Austin driving through the mid-section of the US in our beloved little Acura Integra. It was a 2 door hatchback, and it was...

Lately, we are hearing a lot of talk about patient-centric care, ePatients and a myriad of other approaches to putting the patient in the center of the healthcare system. Like Web 2.0 and the dot com era before it, and more recently, the terms cloud computing and big data,...