Patient data intermediaries

Patient data is a key data source that can give more insight by discovering correlations between various parameters.  Examples could be:
- Disease - Treatment - Outcome
- Patient profile - Disease - Treatment - Outcome
- Environment - Disease
- Lifestyle - Disease
- Disease - Lifestyle - Outcome
and many more...
Getting access to Patient data is the key target for many companies.
New intermediaries build platforms to collect Patient data and to make it available to 3rd parties.  Patient data is no longer that data that is used only by the physician.  It is becoming a key asset for multiple players in the health ecosystem.  This transformation is already happening...

Sensor data intermediary : Alohar

Alhohar is another interesting start-up, founded by Sam Liang (ex Google)  in the space of turning sensor measurements from mobile phones into a data platform that will have value to various companies.   For now this is positioned as a value to the end-user, but possibly including Pharmaceutical companies if medical sensor data would become part of the platform.  Technically extending the platform to collect other sensor data seems like peace of cake once you can deal with the in-phone sensors.

Here are some features of the platform: Alhohar features

Sensor data intermediary platform : Scanadu

Scanadu is a start-up that aims at providing a platform to patients and caregivers that will use your smartphone as the communications vehicle, connecting with the "Tricoder" optical medical sensor, (and possibly various other medical sensors) and transferring the data into a huge patient data database.  The business model is to sell that data (I assume anonymized) to the health insurance companies (and probably Pharma companies in search of outcomes data).  It is nowhere mentioned, but I guess the software will be free of charge to use, provided you accept the terms related to the use of the data.

In this video, Walter De Brouwer is presenting for the TEDxSanJose event the concept: TEDxSanJose Walter De Brouwer
They have the ambition to make a 3 $ optical sensor into a medical device equivalent to $ 100 K in an emergency room in a hospital.  If that can be achieved, it will be a true game changer.

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