The Doctor’s Challenge
@Philip_Edgcumbe
Philip Edgcumbe, PhD
Faculty Member, Singularity University
Principal, Med Edge Consulting
Medical student, University of British Columbia
Jennifer
Personalized & Digital Healthcare
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Earlier diagnosis and better treatment
© Singularity University
Adapt and stay relevant
in an era of digitized
and exponential health.
THE DOCTOR’S CHALLENGE #1 #possiblefuture
ADAPT
Exponential
growth of
data
8.0
ADAPT
Exponential
growth of
artificial
intelligence
ADAPT
Computers are
arithmetic machines
ADAPT
Economics 101:
When the price of a
product goes down
its consumption
goes up
ADAPT
Artificial Intelligence
is a prediction machine
+ Medical Diagnosis
+ Loan Defaults
+ Object Classification
+ Autonomous Vehicles
ADAPT
ADAPT
ADAPT
Artificial
Intelligence
=
Intelligence
Augmentation
Create a future of
deep medicine and
healthcare abundance.
THE DOCTOR’S CHALLENGE #2 #possiblefuture
THE DOCTOR’S CHALLENGE
Deep
Medicine
Healthcare
Abundance
#possiblefuture
Deep
Medicine
DEEP MEDICINE
Deep Medicine
+ Deep understanding of
the patient’s health data
+ Deep personal
relationship between the
doctor and the patient.
DEEP MEDICINE
Deep Medicine
→Natural Language
Processing
→Continuous Health
Monitoring
Healthcare
Abundance
HEALTHCARE ABUNDANCE
Top Priority XPRIZE and $25 million raised
HEALTHCARE ABUNDANCE
Alzheimer’s Treatment,
Personalized and Precise
HEALTHCARE ABUNDANCE
+ Detect and characterize
Alzheimer’s disease
+ Propose novel treatment
strategies to treat
Alzheimer’s disease
Dr. Sonny Kohli
HEALTHCARE ABUNDANCE
Canadian Doctor and
Winner of the Qualcomm
Tricorder XPRIZE Epic Bold
Innovator Award
Vitality – a wearable
with intensive care
unit monitoring
capabilities
HEALTHCARE ABUNDANCE
THE DOCTOR’S CHALLENGE
Deep Medicine Healthcare
Abundance
#possiblefuture
+ Impact
The Doctor’s Challenge
Philip@edgcumbe.ca, @Philip_Edgcumbe
Please feel free to contact me with
questions, comments or to request my
slides.
Jennifer
ADAPT
When the price of a
product goes down
its consumption
goes up
HEALTHCARE ABUNDANCE
Our moonshot:
The End of
Alzheimer’s

The Doctors Challenge - Philip Edgcumbe