Expertise in Healthcare Information Management and Faith Intertwined for Surviving Cancer
BOCA RATON, Fla., April 1, 2015 /Christian Newswire/ -- Patrick J. Grant knows what it is like to be given two weeks to live. In 2014, he was diagnosed with the rarest form of Stage 4 Prostate Cancer, ironically at a time when he was spearheading the launch of a new clinical research learning health system.
Left with what he had been told was a precious few days to live Grant set down to pen a last letter to his children. That letter became a powerful book, Cristo Jesus Llave: My Stage 4 Prostate Cancer Story & the Origin of Our Health Data Cooperative. The book serves a dual purpose to bring any reader close to their faith and to help them better understand what treatments would work best for any illnesses they could become afflicted with.
Patrick J. Grant states –
"My oncologists told me that I only had a short time to live. Yet in several of the messages I received in church I was told I would have a long and healthy life and that through the hands of science I would receive my physical restoration, that my physicians would pray for me and they would see a miracle.
"My oncologist told me they pray all the time and never see results from their prayers like what happened with my case; for the first time in 32 years they saw a miracle in my outcome.
"What God has brought me through impacts my mission to work toward individual ownership of health care data, ownership and access to information so they can look at the outcomes of their treatments to understand what works best for them."
Patrick J. Grant is a survivor of cancer that only 180 people in the US have been diagnosed with. His story is a testament to why the Learning Health System is so necessary. He has lead several multimillion dollar private organizations during the past 25 years as well as leading, as President, the foundation that sponsored the 2012 Learning Health System Summit in Washington, DC. in addition to his foundational leadership in Our Health Data Cooperative.
Cristo Jesus Llave: My Stage 4 Prostate Cancer Story & the Origin of Our Health Data Cooperative is available at: http://amzn.to/1bIYHj9
