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Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.

We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.

What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions.

It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives.

The goal of having more and more information is really to better be able to predict what is your health outcome going to be.

How most consumers collect and interpret health information has changed.

One of the challenges with a government health system, like in the UK, with all of this data, is that you have a government making decisions on which treatments they'll pay for and which ones they won't. That's a dangerous, dangerous, place to get into society.

An enormous piece of the cost in our health care system today is driven by lifestyle decisions, and so we all have an effort to do better.