Zen Chu
Healthcare Entrepreneur Accelerated Medical Ventures
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ACCELERATE DATA: Traditional medicine and physicians cannot scale to deliver high-quality healthcare. New technologies and models of care are key enablers to drive better health outcomes at lower cost. The proof will be in the data, but traditional research and clinical testing yield painfully slow results. Medical knowledge comes from carefully accelerating Data -- traditionally pre-clinical and human experimental data -- either to prove or disprove whether new technologies, medicines, processes or incentives are actually superior. Today, researchers and patients can capture, aggregate and communicate new types of data, yielding faster insights and patient impact.
HACK HEALTHCARE: Medicine needs more Hackers -- clever engineers and designers to re-architect healthcare systems and invent new technologies. Some areas of healthcare are not hackable and must prove experiments down a traditional plodding path. However, health professionals and engineers can accelerate medical innovation across many diseases by applying techniques from high technology to healthcare. Borrowing philosophies from Silicon Valley and MIT for rapid product design, lean startup methodologies, workflow re-engineering, novel data collection, big data analysis, and info publishing can accelerate data generation.
Bio
Zen Chu (@accelmed) is a biomedical engineer and healthcare entrepreneur working across healthcare information technology, whole genome sequencing, medical devices, biomaterial implants, surgical tools, drug delivery, and regenerative medicine. He runs Accelerated Medical Ventures, serving as cofounder and investor for a few early-stage medical and software companies. As Entrepreneur-In-Residence at MIT, Zen mentors the Hacking Medicine program, channeling efforts to accelerate MIT's healthcare ventures.
He co-founded and served as founding CEO for 3D-Matrix Medical Inc, a venture-backed MIT regenerative medicine startup with worldwide partnerships and multiple human clinical trials in process, with an IPO in 2011. Zen has also worked for Harvard Medical School, NetVentures and Hewlett-Packard, where he founded HPGarage new ventures group in Silicon Valley. He earned an MBA from Yale and a B.S. in biomedical/electrical engineering from SMU.