What ' s Next?

After nearly 25 years in Boston, I ' m beginning a new journey at Mayo Clinic in the role of president, Mayo Clinic Platform.  Many colleagues have asked me about the transition.  First, I have profound thanks for my mentors and collaborators in Boston.  I could easily fill an entire blog post with the names of hundreds of people who worked with me since 1996 on cloud services, mobile applications, machine learning, connected devices, and data standards.Those innovations  made a positive impact on many people.   At Mayo, I believe I can scale the lessons learned in Boston to stakeholders around the world.  How?As an adviser to many startups, incubators, and accelerators around the world, I ' ve experienced the barriers and enablers to innovation.   Challenges include lack of standardized technology (APIs with sufficient data granularity and workflow integration),  policies (templates for security, privacy, risk analysis, ethical use of data, and communication),  and people (sufficient staffing to run pilots and focus on collaborators).  Launching a pilot can take 6 months just to work through approval processes.   Sometimes academic medical centers can take as long as 18 months to formalize a proof of concept project.  What if a Platform of technology, policies and people were able to radically shorten the time to evaluate emerging companies and created an " innovation fac...
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