The crucial advice from two of the savviest digerati doctors in Silicon Valley can be summed up this way: disrupt medicine without disrupting the lives of those who practice it.

Health Datapalooza is dedicated to transforming American medicine. But despite talk of “data liberation” and “health data hippies,” the success of the open data movement is a direct result of a synergistic relationship between government and capitalism…

Health Datapalooza is dedicated to transforming American medicine. But despite talk of “data liberation” and “health data hippies,” the success of the open data movement is a direct result of a synergistic relationship between government and capitalism…

“Better compliance” and “better patient decisions” can certainly co-exist in health IT, but there’s also an implicit tension: What happens if the shared decision making bucks what the doctor thinks best?

“Better compliance” and “better patient decisions” can certainly co-exist in health IT, but there’s also an implicit tension: What happens if the shared decision making bucks what the doctor thinks best?

The makers of missiles and of farm products, of attack planes and baby strollers all want a part of the health IT action. Profits, not a prophet, as motivation — but maybe “world peace,” anyway.

The makers of missiles and of farm products, of attack planes and baby strollers all want a part of the health IT action. Profits, not a prophet, as motivation — but maybe “world peace,” anyway.