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Go Beyond Traditional Data to Improve Health Outcomes

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12.09.2016
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Chronic diseases are causing great suffering – and driving up healthcare costs exponentially. How can we leverage personal data and social demographics to help improve a patient’s health habits and lifestyle choices within their community? David Nace, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at MarkLogic, explains why healthcare organizations must go beyond traditional sources of data to effectively improve patient health outcomes.

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Nick Diamond

Nick develops market strategy and messaging for MarkLogic's healthcare and life sciences business. Before joining MarkLogic, Nick worked in advisory and consulting capacities at the MITRE Corporation and Booz Allen Hamilton, respectively, where he supported the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services with policy and operational challenges around implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

Nick has deep subject matter expertise across the health care domain, with particular strengths in health law, bioethics, and public health. His work has appeared in law reviews, leading peer-reviewed journals, and popular media outlets. He has taught health care ethics at the university level, lectured in both medical schools and schools of public health, and appeared multiple times on MSNBC as an expert in public health law.

Nick studied philosophy and theology as an undergraduate at Georgetown, law at Charleston Law, and bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently finishing a master of laws (LL.M.) in global health law at Georgetown Law, where he also serves as an Articles Editor and member of the Article Review Committee for The Food and Drug Law Journal.

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