Emerging Technology in Life Sciences
If I can reduce the impatience of illness or the confusion of care, I have done something worthwhile
I am inspired and driven by a simple yet revolutionary principle championed by the Galien Foundation: "No Decision About Me Without Me" (NDAMWM).
My origin story - At 15, I witnessed firsthand how healthcare systems can fail those they're meant to serve. My father's catastrophic reaction to medication, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, landed him in the ICU for 10 days with a 15% chance of surviving. He lived, not survived. His, my, and our family's subsequent two-year journey is something I hope no one has to endure.
I don't just strategize about healthcare transformation—I live it, breathe it, and build it. Because every patient deserves agency. I understand healthcare from all sides through direct experience and expertise, not just academic theory.
My Focus Areas:
→ Patient advocacy and NDAMWM implementation
→ Clinical capability optimization through technology
→ Healthcare system transformation and strategic consulting
→ Building empathic pipelines in medical institutions
→ Trauma-informed healthcare design
Above all, Hammurabi Codex
Above all, Hammurabi Codex
Healthcare: the Hammurabi Codex and Hippocratic Oath.
The origins of insurance trace back to the Hammurabi Codex, a framework of justice built “to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak” and to equitably manage risk.
The Hammurabi Codex guided the early architects of America’s group insurance model, including my great-uncle, Colonel Gilbert E. Humphrey, who formed Allstate and served as its first president. Long before “You’re in good hands,” his vision was rooted in stability, service, and savings.
the voice of Patients and providers
Trust strategies are an integral part of transformation in healthcare. Of recent, the degradation of trust has accelerated. If distrust is not remediated, a point of no return is reached, and that is when patients and providers feel disrespect.
1. Messaging Doesn’t Resonate with Patients
2. Emphasis on “System Broken” Narratives Raises Reactance
3. Lack of Patient Stories or Peer Narratives
4. Transparency & Empathy Overlooked
5. Misleading Use of Administrative Tools as Clinical Value
6. Overstated Accuracy and Misaligned Purpose
7. Pushing agendas and products for profit
To rebuild trust and prevent similar failures:
- Design with purpose: Build tools that support—not replace—clinical judgment
- Require peer-reviewed validation before deployment
- Communicate limitations and guardrails clearly
- Ensure clinician governance and continuous feedback
- Respect patients and physicians are the owners of clinical data.
tech first, data first, AI first is always wrong
Watson 1.0 Case Study - based on direct experience. I was asked to weigh in on Watson shortly before the launch. Published articles mirror what I shared.
Overstated accuracy - “When they launched it ... they picked a sensitive diagnostic panel with massive comorbidities, then made statements that it was better than a physician. "Providers saw this as arrogant and unethical."
Unsafe Recommendations - “Often recommended treatments not suitable for their patients.” Clinicians rejected AI credibility.
Lack of transparency - Aggressive marketing without studies. Hospitals canceled contracts. Consumer AI backlash - Consumers are suspicious of AI-only messaging, prefer human-led narratives. Patients distrust opaque AI claims
Defined and Aligned - Decode, Define, Deliver
Decode - emerging technology transformation
A growing concern and fail point for considering emerging technology is lack of collaboration with the end users and not addressing the operational and organizational processes.
Define - Transparent, Trustworthy, and Tangible
Emerging technologies are a vehicle and not a strategy. AI is most successful as a solution for task level focus and not replacing reasoning.
Deliver - emerging technology is a commitment
Emerging technology needs more upfront consideration to be successful. The business of business is business - the business of healthcare is the care of health. We cannot conflate the adjudication of claims and care of health.
Case Studies & Use Cases
Cyber risk
Healthcare Darwin Awards
Healthcare Darwin Awards
20-year lookback on due dilligece, partnerships, ecosystems, rigor, roadmaps, HIT delivery, security
Healthcare Darwin Awards
Healthcare Darwin Awards
Healthcare Darwin Awards
A satirical overview of the top 10 issues where conflation of the care of health, and the adjudication of claims must be addressed.
Vetting
Healthcare Darwin Awards
Transformation
The road to somewhere. The lost art of Vetting.. Do not move fast and break things in healthcare. Approaches for HIT.
Transformation
AYITL Leave no patient behind
Transformation
Collaborative transformation is best practice. Sustained innovation requires creative destruction.
AYITL Leave no patient behind
AYITL Leave no patient behind
AYITL Leave no patient behind
Case study - Adding dimensions while simplifying population health for greater benefit, trust, quality
Emerging tech roadmaps
AYITL Leave no patient behind
AYITL Leave no patient behind
1984 Apple playbook. How to curate emerging technology harmonize in healthcare ecosystems.
NYAG and the AOD Healthcare
2026 = Assurance of Discontinuance (AOD) as a remedy. Impact to prior auth, AI, decision support, edits. A study in Cuomo and Spitzer AG eras.
Cyber security informal resource
$12T revenue of cyber criminal activy AI and TOR tools will double it. An illustrative approach, and silver lining of retention and engagement, and reference guide.