The Integrative Stream

About & Contact

This website is about the interactions between business, technology, politics, economics and personal life. Sure, that’s a fairly pretentious way of saying that this web site is about whatever I find interesting. I like systems, and I believe that most subjects tie together. Since my career so far has been at the intersection of technology and healthcare, there’s a lot of that here, too.

I (William Crawford) have been a software developer, a manager, a Chief Technology Officer and an author of books about enterprise computing. In 2006-2007, I spent a year working on Healthcare Information Technology policy issues at the United States Department of Health and Human Services, in the Office of Policy at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the largest healthcare payor in the world.

Right now I’m focused on industry liasion activities for the Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatiocs, and am an MBA candidate at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. I’m also an SM candidate in the MIT Biomedical Enterprise Program, which focuses on bringing together management and scientific professionals to create innovative biomedical businesses. You can never have too many graduate degrees.

This web site replaces two other efforts, one launched in 2002 and an earlier site from the mid-1990s. To celebrate the start of my b-school career I decided to start over. However, a few of the greatest hits can still be found at my O’Reilly & Associates weblog.

I can be reached via email at “will” AT “integrativestream.com” (obviously, remove quotes and replace the AT with an @).