Expert Talk: Ash Damle u0026amp; James Musick on big data, the quantified self and healthcare

Oct 15, 2012

Sogeti Labs

“A big data analytics platform focused on redefining human health, in which we’ve put together now about 130 million data points, cross-connecting about 20,000 symptoms and signs, diagnoses, age, gender, duration, lifestyles”

“We’re very excited to work with people in the quantified self movement”

Ash Damle is CEO at MEDgle, an online information and educational service. Their motto: “To make sense of the world’s health data.” James Musick is head of the Social Media & Web Communications group at Genentech’ Corporate Communications department. They use human genetic information to discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions.

We talked to them about how healthcare can benefit from Big Data and how the quantified self movement is creating better patient data.

Holistic quantitative approach to continuous health care

Personalized healthcare and targeted medicine

From quantified self to automated quantification

Quantified self: using data to improve healthcare

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