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Your Life, Your Health explores the American patient experience and seeks to transform it through a proposal to build a historic National Health Outcomes Research Data Sharing Network. When Joe Kanter was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he asked multiple specialists the same question: Based on the real-world experiences of other patients like me, which treatment option is likely to work best for me? None could answer specifically; each could only offer recommendations based on anecdotal experiences, rather than on hard scientific evidence. Frustrated by his own patient experience, Kanter started the Joseph H. Kanter Family Foundation (KFF) to ensure that one day, patients will no longer face the most important decisions of their lives in an information vacuum. Your Life, Your Health proposes a Learning Health System that, for the first time in history, promises to leverage anonymized data captured in electronic health records as a by-product of delivering care, to enable us to learn from the collective experiences of millions of patients over time.

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Joseph H. Kanter, at 90 years old, is a successful businessman and healthcare philanthropist who founded the Joseph H. Kanter Family Foundation. His business career includes diverse fields such as success in banking, movie production, and apartment development across the US. Kanter founded the First National Bank of Florida, and later moved to Los Angeles and executive produced the 1987 Academy Award-nominated film Ironweed. Throughout his multifaceted career, Kanter has never wavered in his vision to help others. In 1966, he created the Joseph H. Kanter Foundation to award grants for charitable causes. As a three-time cancer survivor, Kanter is committed to developing a National Health Outcomes Data Sharing Network to improve patient care by establishing the Kanter Family Foundation/Health Legacy Partnership in 1998. He continues to lead this vital nonprofit organization today and is preparing for its second Learning Healthcare System Summit. In addition to his successful business career, Joe Kanter has been actively involved with hundreds of civic and philanthropic efforts.

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