Category: CLOUDHealth

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...

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: 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...