The People Geography of Healthcare | People, Not Systems
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...
The People Geography of Healthcare | Love vs. Cancer, People Not IT
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,...
The People Geography of Healthcare | Human-Centric Thinking (Part 2)
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...
The People Geography of Healthcare | Human-Centric Thinking (Part 1)
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,...
What is the Next Mosaic Moment for the Internet?
About a year ago, Susannah Fox “penned” another one her thoughtful posts, this one was about health data, “Thinking critically about Big Data and health care” in response to an article in the New York Times, “Sure Big Data is Great. But So is Intuition.” I drafted a View...
FDA Hacked | When Is a Database Nothing More than a Digital Filing Cabinet? (Part 2)
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...
FDA Hacked | When Is a Database Nothing More than a Digital Filing Cabinet? (Part 1)
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...
Why the Noun Interoperability is Pointing Us in the Wrong Direction
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...
A View from the CLOUD: “Sure, Big Data is Great. But So is Intuition.”
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...
A View from the CLOUD: MD Anderson’s Moon Shot to End Cancer
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...