The Registry: How a Patient’s Pod Checks Who Is Asking
A registry tells a patient’s pod whom to trust: approved hosts, current clinician licenses, and authentic software. Part 4 of the Sovereignty series.
Chris “Buzz” O’Neil
Trust Server Sovereignty: Who Holds the Keys to Your Health Record
Part 3 of the Sovereignty series. In my last post I argued that sovereignty takes a village. This post covers the server at the center of that village: the trust server we are designing at EverBetter. It answers the question every clinic leader and patient should ask first. Who holds the keys? Twenty organizations need … Read more
Sovereignty Takes a Village
Part 2 of the Sovereignty series. Last time, I argued that only one kind of data sovereignty holds up: the kind built into the protocol. A reader asked me a fair question. If my data is mine, why do I need anyone else? Here is my answer. You cannot be sovereign alone. Nobody can. A … Read more
How a CTO Sets the Output Standard for Every AI Session
Every engineer on your team now drafts specifications, designs, and papers with an AI model. The format, evidence, and design vocabulary of that output determine how fast you can review it and how safely you can ship it. Claude’s organization instructions let an Owner on a Team or Enterprise plan set one standard that Claude … Read more
Catch Yourself Doing Well
AI can help a person build health between visits, and it works only when the person trusts it with the truth. Health is created from the inside out, and a person changes fastest when someone notices what they are doing right. This post describes the philosophy behind the EverBetter Sovereign Health Loop™. Our cofounder, Dr. … Read more
Every Visit Counts: Care That Builds on Itself
Maria walks into the clinic at 9:58 for a 10:00 visit. She consented to share her sleep patterns and diet choices with her clinic through the MED app, so her nurse is ready to talk about last week’s sleep. Her physician opens Maria’s notes and finds her health data waiting: every reading since the last … Read more
Engineering Went 10x. The Company Didn’t.
A 10x in engineering is worth nothing until it reaches sales, marketing and business development. Ninety minutes with business students on converting a process into a pipeline.
The Data Inversion: Who Owns the Story of Your Health
Right now, nearly a billion people talk to AI every week [1]. More than 230 million of them are giving away the most valuable asset they own: the story of their health [2]. You say it; they keep it. Today’s AI traps that context behind proprietary walls. HIPAA stops at the covered entity; once health … Read more
Three Definitions of Data Sovereignty. Only One Holds Up.
“Data sovereignty” is the most laundered phrase in technology right now. Three different things wear the label. Two are residency theater. One is the real thing. Last week I was at the 4th Solid Symposium in London. All three definitions appeared in the same room, by name, sometimes in the same sentence. So let me … Read more
The AutoBuild Chronicles, Part 1: Taking the Leap
On Day 2 of AutoBuild, Murilo and I shipped one ADK agent, two integrations, and 2,500 tests. Not over a sprint. In a single day. That is the benchmark. That is what a day in the life should look like for every engineer on this team. This is not a victory lap. It is the … Read more