Lesser of Two Evils or the Greatest Shot at Progress? You Decide.

If you’re current on the national conversation about patient engagement and participatory care, that is, including patients in shared decision making about their health you’ve probably read about (or if you’re lucky…

A Case for Accessible Personal Health Records

There is a divide between the people building technology tools for patients and the patients that may use them. Too often tools are built in the same way one might build a social media app or a news web site.

The future of healthcare UX lies in the past

There were many things to be excited about at the annual Health 2.0 conference in Santa Clara. From serious talks on social health issues by Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy and Chelsea Clinton to the occasionally off-color but always humorous commentary…

What needs to happen to move the needle on secure provider-to-provider communication?

Patient privacy concerns over healthcare data are at an all time high. What most patients don’t realize is that each day, physicians use SMS — a decades old technology — which has no…

Connections, not capital, the ultimate early-stage accelerator

Everything is Marketing

Being actively involved in growing multiple organizations means ending up with a lot of business cards that have my name and email on them. I actively carry batches of at least three different cards with me for the core businesses plus a deck of cards — but that’s another story. I was…