I research, teach and speak internationally on changing the care options for patients and families with chronic medical conditions. My research focuses on developing new methods to identify the obstacles to patients better health and on care delivery mechanisms that effectively and efficiently address those needs. My work involves care providers, health plans, governments and vendors who are seeking to improve value creation in health care delivery. In addition, I work with employers who want to improve the health and productivity of their employees and are designing comprehensive employee health strategies to achieve those goals. Prior to my position at Dartmouth, I was a visiting professor at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Prior to my academic ventures, I was an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and attorney. From 2003 until 2008, I was the CEO of the National Alliance for Health Information Technology, a CEO-level organization created to address leadership challenges in health IT. In 2006, I was appointed by Pres. George W. Bush to chair the Federal Commission on Systemic Interoperability, an 11 person Congressionally-chartered commission charged with creating the national first health IT strategic plan.