This week, Elina is joined by James Kugler, Chief Digital Officer of Merck. James received his Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, USA. A passionate bioinformaticist / computer scientist, he has pursued several research activities at the MIT and Harvard Medical School to gain greater understanding of health sciences and technologies.
While completing a Ph.D. program, James received an attractive job offer as a corporate strategist and planner with Sigma Aldrich (part of the Merck Group since 2015) where he led the development of a scientific collaboration platform. In 2012, he became Head of Global New Product Development & Introduction and was responsible for the harmonization and streamlining of the product development process. In 2014, he became Director Global Digital Marketing and was responsible for the largest eCommerce platform in the life science industry. At the age of 28, he was appointed Chief Digital Officer of Merck. With his “disruptive” way of thinking, he leads a global unit in the digital age and is responsible for Merck’s digital transformation worldwide.
James and Elina discuss:
Commercialisation of data in healthcare
Security of data and collaboration
Digital ethics
Regulation v contextualisation
Data as an enabling infrastructure
Traceability: The importance of infrastructure of the data
Data sets do not tell the whole story
Trustworthiness of data sources
Listen at the following: https://anchor.fm/ethical-ai/episodes/Data-in-healthcare-regulation–commercialisation-and-trust-e1a3skm