Category: CLOUDHealth

When I get to part 3 in a series, I realize that I have landed upon a sustaining meme, a theme that crosses many topics and many boundaries. Typically, at this moment, like my personal writing in the I Have Been Provoked series and my Powdered Donut Manifesto series...

197 days ago, I wrote and posted Part 2 of the People Geography of Healthcare. 26 days later, I said goodbye to the love of my life, Maureen, my beautiful bride of over 24 years. Early in the morning of October 21, 2014, at Seton Hospital in Austin, Texas,...

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...

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,...

We start Part 2 of “When is a Database nothing more than a digital filing cabinet?” where we left off in Part 1. According to Wikipedia, “a database is an organized collection of data.” If we truly embrace this definition of data, then we can completely redefine the issues...

The title of this post is a well worn meme for CLOUD, but the recent hacking of the FDA’s systems forces yet another revisiting of the topic. Rather than asking lawmakers for the FDA to launch a third-party audit of its recent breach, “FDA Hacked, Drugmakers Want Proof that...

Language is not only a way to communicate but also a glimpse into how we think. Our choice of words reveals the way in which we understand the underlying subject matter. This could not be more true than with the word, interoperability. It is not that interoperability isn’t a...

This View from the CLOUD was originally sparked by a much appreciated spot by Liza Bernstein and Susannah Fox’s kind invitation to make a comment at her blog, based on the original article, “Sure, Big Data is Great. But So is Intuition,” by Steve Lohr in the New York...

43 years ago, on July 21, Neil Armstrong stepped on to the surface of the moon; 15 years ago tomorrow on LIVESTRONG day, Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer; and 9 years ago this month, my own wife, Maureen, was diagnosed with breast cancer, while pregnant with our now...