Philip Edgcumbe is striving to positively impact the health of a billion people by connecting medicine, biomedical research, and entrepreneurship.

1. The Doctor’s Challenge
@Philip_Edgcumbe
Philip Edgcumbe, PhD
Faculty Member, Singularity University
Principal, Med Edge Consulting
Medical student, University of British Columbia

2. Jennifer

3. Personalized & Digital Healthcare
© Singularity University

4. Earlier diagnosis and better treatment
© Singularity University

5. Adapt and stay relevant
in an era of digitized
and exponential health.
THE DOCTOR’S CHALLENGE #1 #possiblefuture

6. ADAPT
Exponential
growth of
data
8.0

8. ADAPT
Exponential
growth of
artificial
intelligence

9. ADAPT
Computers are
arithmetic machines

10. ADAPT
Economics 101:
When the price of a
product goes down
its consumption
goes up

11. ADAPT
Artificial Intelligence
is a prediction machine
+ Medical Diagnosis
+ Loan Defaults
+ Object Classification
+ Autonomous Vehicles

12. ADAPT

13. ADAPT

14. ADAPT
Artificial
Intelligence
=
Intelligence
Augmentation

15. Create a future of
deep medicine and
healthcare abundance.
THE DOCTOR’S CHALLENGE #2 #possiblefuture

16. THE DOCTOR’S CHALLENGE
Deep
Medicine
Healthcare
Abundance
#possiblefuture

17. Deep
Medicine

18. DEEP MEDICINE
Deep Medicine
+ Deep understanding of
the patient’s health data
+ Deep personal
relationship between the
doctor and the patient.

19. DEEP MEDICINE
Deep Medicine
→Natural Language
Processing
→Continuous Health
Monitoring

20. Healthcare
Abundance

21. HEALTHCARE ABUNDANCE

22. Top Priority XPRIZE and $25 million raised
HEALTHCARE ABUNDANCE

23. Alzheimer’s Treatment,
Personalized and Precise
HEALTHCARE ABUNDANCE
+ Detect and characterize
Alzheimer’s disease
+ Propose novel treatment
strategies to treat
Alzheimer’s disease

24. Dr. Sonny Kohli
HEALTHCARE ABUNDANCE
Canadian Doctor and
Winner of the Qualcomm
Tricorder XPRIZE Epic Bold
Innovator Award

25. Vitality – a wearable
with intensive care
unit monitoring
capabilities
HEALTHCARE ABUNDANCE

26. THE DOCTOR’S CHALLENGE
Deep Medicine Healthcare
Abundance
#possiblefuture

27. + Impact

28. The Doctor’s Challenge
Philip@edgcumbe.ca, @Philip_Edgcumbe
Please feel free to contact me with
questions, comments or to request my
slides.

29. Jennifer

31. ADAPT
When the price of a
product goes down
its consumption
goes up

32. HEALTHCARE ABUNDANCE
Our moonshot:
The End of
Alzheimer’s