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Book SynopsisHow the data revolution is transforming biotech and health care, especially in the wake of COVID-19and why you can't afford to let it pass you by
We are living through a time when the digitization of health and medicine is becoming a reality, with new abilities to improve outcomes for patients as well as the efficiency and success of the organizations that serve them. In The Patient Equation, Glen de Vries presents the history and current state of life sciences and health care as well as crucial insights and strategies to help scientists, physicians, executives, and patients survive and thrive, with an eye toward how COVID-19 has accelerated the need for change. One of the biggest challenges facing biotech, pharma, and medical device companies today is how to integrate new knowledge, new data, and new technologies to get the right treatments to the right patients at precisely the right timesmade even more profound in the midst of a pandemic and in the years to c
Table of Contents
Introduction vii
Section 1 From Hippocrates to Epocrates 1
Chapter 1 Before We Cured Scurvy 3
Chapter 2 Inside the Equations 17
Chapter 3 Fitbits, Smart Toilets, and a Bluetooth-enabled Self-driving ECG 43
Section 2 Applying Data to Disease 57
Chapter 4 Ava—Tracking Fertility, on the Road Toward Understanding All of Women’s Health 59
Chapter 5 One Breath, One Drop—Asthma and Diabetes, Chronic Conditions Being Conquered with Technology 69
Chapter 6 Flumoji and Sepsis Watch—Two Approaches to Predicting and Preventing Acute, Life-threatening Conditions Through Smarter Data 81
Chapter 7 Cancer and Phage Therapy—Crafting Custom Treatments Just for You 93
Chapter 8 Castleman Disease—Not One Rare Disease with No Treatments, But Three Rare Diseases . . . with Hope, Thanks to Data 105
Section 3 Building Your Own Patient Equations 113
Chapter 9 The Steam Table 115
Chapter 10 Good Data 133
Chapter 11 Changing Clinical Trials 143
Chapter 12 Disease Management Platforms 175
Section 4 Scaling Progress to the World 191
Chapter 13 The Importance of Collaboration 193
Chapter 14 Value-based Reimbursement 203
Chapter 15 Aligning Incentives 217
Conclusion 231
Acknowledgments 241
About the Authors 243
Index 245
