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**[RAW USER SOURCE: Direct Narrative]**
I met him [Eric Sachs] at the Markle Foundation Personal Health Technology Council. And so, there was like 50 people there, all the leading folks... That was when Carol Diamond said, "Everybody is talking about we need patient consent." It's like, "Well, how do you have consent if you can't get people to agree on who the patient is across organizations? What does consent even mean?"... So, we set up the consumer identity... let's figure out how to do identity so we can do consent. And that's how I got to know Eric Sachs. And he was like my straight guy, because he would tell people how hard it was. It's like, "Yeah, at Google Health... we had like 20 people go through the whole process, and not a single one of them was able to actually manage who could access their records."
**[AI DISTILLATION: Contextual Synthesis]**
*Graph Nodes & Edges:* [People: Eric Sachs, Carol Diamond, Jim Carcanis] | [Institutions: Markle Foundation, Google Health, Microsoft] | [Concepts: Patient Consent, Cross-Organizational Identity, Attribute-Based Access Control].
*Synthesis:* At the Markle Foundation, Jonathan identified the core paradox of legacy healthcare infrastructure: user-managed consent is mathematically impossible without a standardized, cross-organizational identity layer. Eric Sachs, then leading Google's identity initiatives, served as the ultimate industry validator ("the straight guy"), openly admitting that even Google's world-class engineers could not make attribute-based access control work for standard patients. This paradox validates the QPN's "Easy Access API," which resolves this exact integration bottleneck by providing a universal trust layer.
Vignette AA: Microsoft Crucibles & The "Windows" Anchor
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Ingested whole under Option 2 of the backlog (31 August 2026): previously represented only by excerpts in the August 24 records (S-058–S-062); the full text now governs. Entity and episode links to be wired in a derivation pass. Derivation pass (31 August 2026): wired to Eric Sachs, the Council, the Foundation and Carol Diamond. The record's open question on Sachs's affiliation (Microsoft vs Google identity — Batch Queue §9.2) is unchanged; this account places him at Google Health.
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