Action Steps:

1. To be a good “second brain,” ensure the “primary brain” knows that there will be no judgment no matter what they bring to you. Open conversation breeds a level of comfort that leads to increased trust and efficiency.
2. To be a good “primary brain,” be willing to throw any idea you have to your collaboration partner. Trust that they will hear you and help you find the solutions you are seeking.
3. Identify your second brain. Don’t worry if you need more than one. 
4. Be willing to be a second brain for someone else. Offer your expertise to those you think can use it.

John Dudley has worked extensively on the development and deployment of highly effective information technology solutions in resource-limited settings. Living for a decade in Lesotho, a small landlocked country with a high disease burden in an underdeveloped health-care system, John’s work took him to the countries of Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, eSwatini, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. He has also provided remote infrastructure for health facilities in Argentina, Colombia, Romania, and Papua New Guinea. Currently, John leads the development of GlobalHealthEMR, a patient-centered clinician-extensible electronic medical record system being developed in “majority world” countries in sub-Sharan Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America.

Having recently returned to the United States, he remains acquainted with the unique infrastructure challenges posed in similar locales by serving as technology advisor for the global health initiatives of Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital. 

John founded Industrial Imagination in 1995 while attending Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia, home to an early testbed of internet access to the general public. He assumed the role of HelloHealth’s CTO in 2022. 

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