Health care costs rise as doctors try batches of treatments that don’t work in search of one that does. Meanwhile, drug companies spend billions on developing each drug and increasingly end up with nothing to show for their pains. This is the alarming state of medical science today. Shahid Shah, device developer and system integrator, sees a different paradigm emerging. In this interview at the Open Source convention, Shah talks about how technologies and new ways of working can open up medical research.
Shah will be speaking at Strata Rx in October.
Highlights from the full video interview include:
- Medical science will come unstuck from the clinical trials it has relied on for a couple hundred years, and use data collected in the field [Discussed at the 0:30 mark]
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Failing fast in science [Discussed at the 2:38 mark]
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Why and how patients will endorse the system [Discussed at the 3:00 mark]
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Online patient communities instigating research [Discussed at the 3:55 mark]
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Consumerization of health care [Discussed at the 5:15 mark]
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The pharmaceutical company of the future: how research will get faster [Discussed at the 6:00 mark]
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Medical device integration to preserve critical data [Discussed at the 7:20 mark]
You can view the entire conversation in the following video:
Strata Rx — Strata Rx, being held Oct. 16-17 in San Francisco, is the first conference to bring data science to the urgent issues confronting healthcare.