This week I am talking to Shai Gozani MD, PhD, President and CEO of Neurometrix – a company focusing on improving the diagnosis and treatment of disease using digital technology. Shai has a background as an electrical engineer and worked for Bell Labs back in the mid 1980’s and studied for his PhD in Neurobiology focusing on signal processing listening to crickets and how they process information.
Neurometrix was originally a short term activity for him but has proven to be so productive and interesting that 20+ years on they are still innovating with their most recent focus around the Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) that builds on the Gate Control Theory of Pain and is starting to understand the molecular basis for these effects. Part of the focus came as a result of a desire to address the opioid crisis with alternative non-pharmaceutical methods for pain relief and they have made some incredible progress in providing solutions for pain relief for some intractable and challenging painful conditions with their Quell wearable pain relief technology. On that journey they understood that 90% of the solution development is easy, it is the last 5-10% that is challenging
Listen in to hear about his Incremental Learning points that included
- Moving from the Lab to real world is really hard
- Small incremental improvements across all the aspects of a solution are key elements to successful execution and creation og real world Digital solutions
- Getting “Ultimate Precision” is on the path to developing a successful quantitative measurements of disease and treatments
- The gap between the art of medicine and the need for precision based science is the opportunity space for innovation
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