Ruby Gadelrab and Jill Hagenkord are hoping to bridge the gap between technology and medicine, and help investors vet start-ups for potential red flags.
Not all problems are related to lying and cheating. In 2013, the Federal Drug Administration asked 23andMe to stop selling its health tests because the company couldn't prove they worked. It set 23andMe back two years while the companyGadelrab was working at genetics company Affymetrix when she met Hagenkord, whose background was in pathology and genomics.
Some of the books she recommends to tech entrepreneurs include Ezekiel Emanuel's "Reinventing American Health Care" and Otis Web Brawley's "How We Do Harm." She also tries to educate them on the challenges that doctors face. While there's a myth that all doctors are paternalistic and don't listen to their patients, the real problem is that the system requires them to spendand they don't have sufficient time to spend on holistic patient care.
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