Digital solutions for oncology patients, providing industry with the valuable patient centric RWE

In this talk, Vincent Keunen will share the challenges he and his family encountered while going through a challenging health crisis: his own cancer, and the cancer of his 10 years old son.  He will explain what he believes is missing for both patients empowerment and for speeding up medical research.  He will then discuss a possible approach to collecting rich Real World Data (RWD) and Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) while respecting patients privacy and under high information security.  He will also briefly touch on how remote patient monitoring and continuity of care outside the hospital can benefit from the same approach. Join in to understand how care and research can benefit from real life and empowered patients.

Speaker: Vincent Keunen, Cancer survivor and Entrepreneur, CEO and Founder of Andaman7, a project by patients for patients.

Vincent Keunen is the founder and CEO of Andaman7.  Previously, he developed numerous medical IT systems (a secure data exchange platform used by more than 90% of Belgian hospitals and family doctors, and a prevention EHR, managing today close to 1 million patients).  Vincent was also the CIO of success story Lampiris and was awarded the CIO of the year prize for his work there.  When Vincent was diagnosed with leukemia in 2007, and his 10 year old son was diagnosed with bone cancer 3 months later, he decided to use his software engineering skills to provide all patients with a tool to manage their health information on their smartphone. That platform can now be used to improve medical research by collecting RWE (Real World Evidence) and PRO (Patient Reported Outcomes) while facilitating telemedicine, remote patient monitoring and continuity of care.