J.D. currently serves as Chairman and C.E.O. of Omnimedix Institute, a non-profit health care information technology research and development organization based in Portland. He has also recently served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Health Grades, a publicly traded health care information company based in Denver. During the 1990s, J.D. was a founding executive of HCIA - now Solucient – the nation’s first pure-play health care information company. He was also a health care business columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

Before joining HCIA, J.D. was Director of Corporate Programs at Sheppard Pratt Health System, the largest private psychiatric hospital in the U.S. While at Sheppard Pratt - and only 28 years old at the time - J.D. developed and managed the nation’s first provider-based, managed mental health care system.

J.D.’s first book - Bleeding Edge: The Business of Health Care in the New Century - is required reading in most physician-executive MBA programs, and most health administration graduate programs in the U.S. His newest book is Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System.

In both his published work and business activities, J.D. has been an eloquent champion of a health care system re-engineered around the principles of sound data; improved access to proven medicines; empowered but accountable doctors and patients; and a streamlined, functioning health insurance marketplace.