Article – The New Big Data Application That Is Reshaping Clinical Trials

The new big data application is reshaping clinical trials. Someone on the shopfloor spots an improvement or better way of doing things that snowballs into a business; it’s a familiar approach to innovation and entrepreneurship. Indeed, many big technology firms deliberately encourage this behaviour.

But it’s less common for a practising doctor to create a successful technology solution. But let that be the story of Adrien Ko, who hit the idea for his data-driven patient recruitment start-up while he was supervising a lab for Cerba Healthcare in France.