The gap between the promise and practice of technology has been especially vivid in the area of pharmaceutical clinical trials, where even switching from paper to electronic data capture has proved too radical for some sponsors. Today’s guest, Kara Dennis, managing director of digital health at Medidata, seeks to change all this to help the industry modernize.
Unlike many of our guests, Kara didn’t start out in medicine; she was a history major at Yale, then joined Teach For America, which she told us was the most difficult job of her life. She subsequently worked at McKinsey – where she was introduced to healthcare — and attended business school at Harvard (visibly not the most difficult job of her life).
In her present role leading digital health at Medidata (a forward-thinking cloud-based solutions provider based in New York), Kara is truly at the tip-of-the-spear (to use a phrase management consultants love), and provides us with an up-to-date, down-to-earth view of how pharma companies are thinking about digital health in the context of clinical studies – and how this adoption might be accelerated.
We welcome Kara to Tech Tonics today. You can listen to her interview below or find it on iTunes by clicking HERE or on the Connected Social Media website HERE.
This episode of Tech Tonics is sponsored by DNAnexus, the secure and compliant cloud platform that enables enterprise users to analyze, collaborate around, and integrate massive amounts of genetic and other health data.
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