E374 Troy Astorino, Co-Founder and CTO at PicnicHealth

Today's guest is Troy Astorino, Co-Founder and CTO at PicnicHealth in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 2014, PicnicHealth are building deep real-world datasets fueling cutting edge research while giving patients control of their own medical record data. These complete, clinically-rich datasets produce unique insights - across dozens of diseases - to ultimately get the right treatments into patients’ hands faster.

PicnicHealth do this by working directly with patients and leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning and human curation to transform messy medical records into structured, research-ready datasets. By partnering with some of the largest life sciences companies, they have helped tens of thousands of patients securely access their records and proactively contribute to advancing research in diseases that impacts their lives.

In the episode, Troy will discuss:

Problems they are solving within patient medical data,

The role of AI, Data Science & Analytics in their platform,

How the team is set up for success,

Typical projects they work on, such as ML & NLP,

What the future looks like for PicnicHealth, and

Why PicnicHealth is a great place to work