Dave is Senior Director of Solution Innovation of Healthwise. Healthwise has a not-for-profit mission to help people make better health decisions. People have turned to Healthwise decision support information and tools over a billion times during its 37 year history. David's life focus is to give people the power to improve the world around them through new media. David has applied his entrepreneurial background to help Healthwise breakthrough traditional health education approaches through the use of new media, shared decision making and integrating patient generated health information into clinical records. He currently is facilitating the Patient Engagement Collaborative, a group founded to promote pre-visit experiences and other uses of patient response into the clinical workflow. David's work in implementing "information therapy" solutions has provided a template for many of the patient-facing requirements built into the Meaningful Use rules. David received a B.A. in Biology from Brown University. He and his daughter are Florida natives, and his wife is from Idaho.