John designed and implemented his first EHR in 1984 and has designed or implemented six additional EHRs since then. He chairs both regional and national IT investment portfolios for Kaiser Permanente. His team led the first and largest deployment of KP HealthConnect, the largest private health record deployment in the nation.
He continues to lead scores of innovation projects throughout Kaiser Permanente, ranging from mobile healthcare apps, social analytics and interventions, telemedicine, big data analytics, and the behavioral economics of change.
He is currently launching a project to transform how complex data sets, including genomic, microbiomics, exposomics, socialomics and phenomics can be transformed through visualization into intuitive representations. His primary goal is to harvest the exponential growth of knowledge about health and use it to help individuals participate more directly in improving their own health and resilience and at the same time engage their communities in broader initiatives around health promotion for all members of the community.