Linda Avey

Brainstormer, Change Agent, Connector, Entrepreneur, Explorer, Idea generator, Potential employer, Scientist, Startup

Co-founder of Precisely and 23andMe. Precisely is a new health OS that automates complex clinical protocols through AI, alleviating the burden of repetitive and routine tasks and decreasing burnout for care teams. Patent pending DSL enables rapid web deployment (and refinement) of clinical flows and supports patients 24/7, while keeping care teams informed. 23andMe was conceived and designed to amass genetic information in support of identifying targets for drug development through a consumer-driven research mission. The company now has the largest re-contactable participant database (over 12 million), generating over 100 research articles and identifying gene targets across multiple disease domains. Its recognizable consumer brand is ubiquitous across social media, MSM, and American culture.

...tackling the broken US healthcare system with a more comprehensive solution that solves underlying web-related challenges. Much of healthcare is routine and rote flows, which lead to care team burnout. Doctors and nurses shouldn't have to spend 50% of their time entering data into EHRs. Yet this is what technology has delivered to the medical system. Intelligent agents can be deployed to take on these tasks, which are then performed methodically and consistently while allowing medical professionals to work at the top of their licenses.

The web was built primarily to serve up documents. The supporting architecture has stymied advancement of complex, long-running, and customized web experiences (cookies are a stopgap). The definition of web3 has been commandeered by blockchain philosophers; we're positing a more practical transition to a new form of functional HCI that enables a far richer and less rigid web experience.

Consumer genetics, digital health, health automation, Indian health system, Intelligent agents

TED2006 opened up a world of possibilities and enabled discussions that helped launch 23andMe! Been a fan ever since.

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