76 - What Now? with Shaneel Pathak (ZoeInsights)

Let’s Meet For A Beer is now The Kondrat Podcast, and the first guest for the new format is Shaneel Pathak, CEO of ZoeInsights, sharing how they’re empowering people around the world to take control of their health data.

Shaneel’s inspiration in founding ZoeInsights is a profoundly personal one, born out of the experience he and his late wife went through during her battle with cancer. With the health system initially not taking her concerns seriously, massive challenges just understanding the information around her diagnosis, and trying to retain, remember, and make sense of all the information that was being provided to them verbally or on paper they found themselves entrenched in information chaos and in need of a digital solution to keep them in control.

His wife’s prognosis was initially dire having been told the remainder of her life would be measured in just months, but she was able to not just live but thoroughly enjoy her life for another four years because the two had been determined to become “citizen scientists” by carefully tracking her health data, crowd sourcing the health data of others with the same diagnosis, making informed decisions about her care, and ultimately being able to tweak medications and treatments in order to improve the quality of her life.

The goal of ZoeInsights is to make being a citizen scientist possible for everyone around the world, starting with taking control of medical files back from the current fragmented state of incomplete files spread across every doctor a person has ever seen, collecting all of this data in a central location that stays with the patient. From there, they’ll be using AI to help scale up analysis of health data, helping patients and their doctors make informed decisions, improving quality of life and quality of care for everyone.

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