The Future of Health by Ascione Roberto;

Author:Ascione, Roberto; [Ascione, Roberto]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Published: 2021-09-28T00:00:00+00:00

Flatiron Health

Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg founded Flatiron Health in 2012, shortly after their first company (Invite Media, an online advertising company) was purchased by Google. Flatiron's idea had already been circulating in the minds of the two founders for a few years. Turner's seven-year-old cousin Brennan was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. During Brennan's treatment, Turner and Weinberg realized how fragmented and inefficient the health-care system was. Based on this experience, in order to transform the way cancer is studied and treated, their idea was to bring together some of the best minds in medicine and technology. Flatiron harnesses the potential of digital technology to collect clinical data from cancer patients: what drugs they have taken or are taking, how they have responded to various medicines and dosages, what side effects they have recorded, and so on.

Flatiron's goal is to make sure that doctors can build a better idea of how cancer drugs work in the “real world,” that is, in hospitals and cancer centers, rather than during clinical trials. The company raised more than $300 million from investors including GV and the pharmaceutical giant Roche, which acquired Flatiron in February 2018 at a cost of about $2 billion. The experience of every cancer patient is extremely important, and each patient's story has the unique potential to teach something new about the way cancer acts. This information can help to discover the most effective treatments more quickly. Flatiron's team believes that learning from these experiences is the key to accelerating research and continuing to improve the quality of care. Today, most of the available clinical data is unstructured and stored in thousands of clinics, medical centers, and hospitals, all of them disconnected from each other. That is a problem that Flatiron seeks to solve. Currently, Flatiron collaborates with 280 cancer clinics, seven major academic research centers, and more than 15 of the most relevant therapeutic oncology companies in the United States.

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