I have had the privilege of serving as a pediatrician for nearly twenty years, and have encountered dozens of children and families who have deeply impacted me. Their stories fuel my drive to transform systems to those that truly produce, sustain and enable health. Cris’ is one of those stories. Cris* is a 13-month-old adorable child who is the third of four siblings all younger than 6 years. I first met Cris and his mother Tanya* when they came for a follow-up appointment f

In the past decade, the explosion of data collection, analysis and mining tools have created tremendous improvements in our understanding of various influences on health such as place, trauma and health-related behaviors. The promise of “big data” – extremely large data sets that may be analyzed computationally to reveal patterns, trends, and associations, especially relating to human behavior and interactions – to also inform how healthcare identifies, profiles and stratifi