- Neal Patterson (Probably, if he founded a golf technology company instead the healthcare giant, Cerner) Let me start with a story from my first job out of college. I was a consultant at Cerner, and during orientation they told us a famous Neal Patterson story. This was early 2000s. Healthcare was still largely paper-based. Charts. Clipboards. Handwritten notes nobody could read. Neal walked on stage at a healthcare conference, held up a pen, and said: “This is the most da