Figure 1.
This figure shows similarities between the learning system successfully realized in companies and aspired in health care. Amazon improves the system via every web page click to increase profit. This efficiency has not materialized in health care to leverage the information gathered in every patient interaction to improve patient outcome.
Figure 2.
Model for patient as the holder of health care data. Hospitals often have interoperability issues to automatically share patients' health records (red cross). Empowering patients to centralize their health care data could form a meaningful research partnership and create efficient ways to help the next patient.