Flatiron Health

16 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 18, 2015 by Zach Weinberg · said 18 times in 2 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Feb 18, 2015
Disclosure
Flatiron Health extracts clinical interpretations from reports, avoiding raw medical images
“So we don't pull the raw image today because for us it's about the clinical interpretation, and so that we get out of the report.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 29:29 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Feb 18, 2015
Disclosure
Flatiron tracks a 6,000-person lung cancer cohort monthly
“To do it at scale, we track a 6000 person advanced non-small cell lung cancer cohort every month.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 10:19 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Feb 18, 2015 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Flatiron raised $138M from Google, its largest healthcare deal
“We, we've raised about a hundred and thirty eight million dollars from Google. We're their largest healthcare investment to date.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 3:01 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Feb 18, 2015 positive
Assertion Supported
Flatiron Health partnered with NCCN's 25 major US cancer centers
“We announced a partnership with this group called the NCCN, which is the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. It's 25 of the largest cancer centers in the US where if you contribute your data you will be able to get the broader data set for research purposes…”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 7:01 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Feb 18, 2015 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Acquiring an oncology EHR saved three to five years on Flatiron's roadmap
“We probably shaved like three, four, five years off of our roadmap.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 18:03 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Feb 18, 2015 neutral
Insight
Machine learning should enhance human experts rather than replace them
“Our take on this is we should be building tools for trained professionals along with a feedback loop to tell them how they're doing. Machine learning and other technologies I think you can apply on top to make those people slightly more efficient.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 13:43 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Feb 18, 2015
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Flatiron captures EGFR mutation status in 99% of its dataset
“If you looked for that in a structured field, you'd see it about nine or 10% of the time. In our data set, it's 99%.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 10:04 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Feb 18, 2015
Disclosure
Flatiron spends 90% of its time on single-player software value
“Today we've spent probably 90% of our time focused on the single player use case.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 6:45 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Feb 18, 2015
Disclosure
Flatiron Health spent over half its $130M Series B acquiring an EHR
“We raised a Series B is a hundred and thirty million and we used some of that money you know, more than 50%, let's say, to acquire this electronic health records company that builds a specialized oncology EHR.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 17:24 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Feb 18, 2015 neutral
Disclosure
Flatiron's business is 60% provider-focused and 40% life sciences
“And right now about 60% of our business is, is provider focused, and then the other 40% Is, ah, research and life sciences focused.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 24:06 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Feb 18, 2015 neutral
Disclosure
Flatiron targets data from the 95% of cancer patients outside trials
“So we don't touch that piece of the market. That's about four to five percent of patients will go on a trial. We look at the 95% who are not on a trial.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 25:42 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Feb 18, 2015 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Flatiron Health software connects 20% of US cancer cases
“And that network now represents about 20% of all cancer cases in the U.S. So about one in five cancer cases we see.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 4:00 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Feb 18, 2015 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Flatiron Health sees data from under 700,000 cancer patients annually
“We see a little under 700,000.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 5:54 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Feb 18, 2015
Insight
Changing physician behavior requires showing direct benefits to individual doctors
“If you're gonna tell a doctor to change something they're doing, you need to tell them why it matters. And I think the key is explaining, hey, if you do this thing that you haven't done, and you weren't trained to do, and you went to school for, like, 15 years…”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 21:43 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Feb 18, 2015 neutral
Disclosure
Flatiron Health does not utilize health information exchanges
“We don't do health information exchanges, actually.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 27:45 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Feb 18, 2015
Disclosure
Flatiron Health spends most of its operational time cleaning dirty data
“We talk about all the fun software, but the reality is we spend most of our time cleaning data.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 7:49 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
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