Harnessing Big Data to Improve Healthcare
One of the top ten medical breakthroughs expected in 2012 is Harnessing Big Data to Improve Healthcare.
As Trustee of the Board at X PRIZE Foundation, I am focused on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address the global challenges in education, poverty, agriculture, health, and clean water. With so much data in the world of cyberspace, it only makes sense that we begin to innovate and make use of it in the medical field.
That’s why I jump-started Digital Doctor, an incentive-based prize challenge that will improve access to better healthcare through artificial intelligence. The idea is to get Digital Doctor medical diagnosis technology on an Android tablet in places where there is no medical care. It could be used by someone to diagnose the most-common diseases. It could impact billions of lives and allow people to build a business around the diagnosing ailments in remote areas.
If we apply entrepreneurship to the medical field, the opportunities and benefits are endless. We can mine medical data to curb medical mistakes, decrease unnecessary treatments, lower healthcare costs and bring treatment to the poorest in world who don’t have proper access to healthcare.
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Naveen Jain
Naveen Jain is a Philanthropist, Entrepreneur and Technology Pioneer. Naveen is founder of Moon Express, Intelius and InfoSpace. Naveen is a Trustee of the Board at the X PRIZE Foundation where he is focused on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address the global challenges in education, poverty, agriculture, health, and clean water. He is a Trustee of the Board of at Singularity University, an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to educate and inspire leaders to address humanity’s grand challenges through innovative technologies. Naveen serves as a Director on the Board of Flow Mobile, a company dedicated to bringing innovative mobile broadband service to under-served and un-served rural towns across the country. He is a member of Pacific Council on International Policy. Naveen Jain has been awarded many honors for his entrepreneurial successes and leadership skills including “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year”, “Albert Einstein Technology Medal” for pioneers in technology, “Top 20 Entrepreneurs” by Red Herring, “Six People Who Will Change the Internet” by Information Week.