>> So from my perspective, the healthcare is my passion.
But I also have a very personal nature of not accepting anything on face value,
so that can be very frustrating for people that deal with me on a personal basis at times
because I challenge everything; I was that annoying person
who always challenged everything teachers said and-- and I don't accept anything as status quo
and that has kind of been-- helped me to get into the role of leading innovation
because I don't look at anything as-- as it exists today as being fine, but in-- it's a--
it's a path to being better, right, and so to me it's both craving change
but also the underpinning of my-- my nature is in healthcare.
I'd say the hardest part is there is so many moving pieces and there are so many--
you know, there's parts of healthcare in the United States that are very much entrenched
in the status quo, getting folks to-- clinicians to want to leverage technology more in their day
to day practice when they're just focusing on delivering care to the patients in front
of them, that's hard to do; it's hard to get a clinician's attention to want to look
at more technologies when they really just want to deliver care,
that's why they went to med school.
So that's part of it.
I-- frankly, I find all of it really exciting because there is so--
it is so fragmented in the United States, the healthcare [inaudible] ecosystem very disjointed
so that there's endless areas of opportunity, so that's a good thing.
But it can be frustrating; it's frustrating to--
to get folks to understand where healthcare is headed and get them to change; it's a challenge.