Why $45 billion pharma giant Roche is teaming up with a buzzy health insurance startup to find new treatments for diseases
, and an agreement with the Croatian government.
"What we're trying to develop is an overall picture of the patient," Talbert said. "What that patient has experienced and what the result of that has been."First, it has to provide"It has to tell us something," Talbert said. "What we seek to do is have data that is high quality or can be made higher quality in some fashion."
That means it has to be multidimensional, with variables Genentech can use to suss out insights from; it has to be over a long enough period of time; and there has to be enough of it to for Genentech to draw insights out of. Those fall into place so long as the first component is fulfilled. "It all starts with the meaningful data at scale," Talbert said. That is, can you get useful information that you can then turn into tools as well as analyze and apply AI to.
The end result is exactly the promise of precision medicine: Can you figure out which people will respond to which treatments, so that everyone gets the optimal treatment for them? To be sure, Roche isn't alone in turning to external data sources to influence how the company discovers and develops drugs. For years, drugmakers have been turning toand clinical data sources, especially through companies like Flatiron. But as other sources of data not collected in a whole genome sequence or electronic medical record get collected, it remains to be seen how helpful that information is in informing the next wave of treatments.
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