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Prediction Not checkable as stated
Doctors will not change workflows within a startup's timeframe
“Doctors are not going to change. And at least not in any sort of timeframe that matters for a startup. Maybe, maybe 1015 years.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 10:58 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
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)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Most under-20 person healthcare startups fail to cross the scaling chasm
“There's a hell of a lot of 20 people and under healthcare startups coming out of incubators and whatnot, but most, if you look at the success, and not to, Poo poo startups, but most fail to cross that chasm into, like, a successful healthcare business.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 14:37 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
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)
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)
Prediction Didn’t hold up
US oncology EHR adoption will reach 100% by 2017
“And in oncology that's about 90% or so, and growing. It'll be a hundred percent within the next two years.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 4:53 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
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)
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)
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)
Assertion Partly supported
Oncology accounts for about 40% of pharma R&D spending
“So about 40% of all R&D spending from pharma is oncology based.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 19:48 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
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