In this twelfth episode, Jeff Kaditz, Founder/CEO of Q Bio begins with coronavirus chat. He goes on to explain that most medical knowledge today is probably incorrect or heavily biased. That there’s almost nothing a doctor does that couldn’t have been done 200 years ago in terms of the information.

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He presents his vision to run ‘search engines for the body’ and turn healthcare into hard science.Topics we discussed in this episode

Coronavirus possibly a once in a hundred year pandemic unfoldingPresent confusion around the impact of coronavirusHome tests for coronavirusNeed for an analytics platform for measuring change in the human bodyHuman health is more of a long tail distribution than a normal distributionAbsurdity that we reduce complicated diseases to a single variable measured at a single point in timeApplying modern information theory and data science to understanding human healthPhysical exam of the future gathers genetic, chemical and structural informationBuilding a healthcare system that actually gets better and more efficient over timeTransforming healthcare and health into hard science and an information scienceGetting to the point of being able to test body hypotheticalsEnvisioning a triage layer in front of the existing primary care systemBuilding the ultimate clinical decision support tool for the futureClinical studies are flawedThe more people that have lived, the better we should be at understanding what’s going on in our bodiesAge of the digitization of biologyLab assays bake the query into the assayIn the near future the query becomes software, not the actual physical process of gathering informationWill become feasible and cheap to just measure everything about the human body on some regular intervalHealthcare will truly become a pure information scienceMost medical knowledge today is probably incorrect and it’s probably heavily biasedNeed to take multi-scale measurements like physics doesNo reason why we shouldn’t be able to stay as young as we want indefinitelyBody is an entropy fighting system which eventually loses the battleThe end goal should be getting to more proactive or preventative medicineIn the future we will know why we got sick

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