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Jeff Dachis is one of the most well-known figures in the American tech scene. In 1994, he founded one of the first digital transformation firms, Razorfish.

Jeff Dachis and Roberto Ascione

Credit: Roberto Ascione (Author)

In 2008, Jeff Dachis founded Dachis Group, a company that uses proprietary data analytics technology to help brands optimize their social marketing performance. In 2014, the group was acquired by Sprinklr. But the real turning point in his life came in 2013, when he turned 47 and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. “I remember going to the doctor and talking to the nurse for a few minutes. Then they gave me an insulin pen, a prescription, and a pat on the shoulder. I really felt neglected.” Since then, he has given himself a mission: to use new technologies for improving the lives of every person with diabetes. The result was One Drop, an app whose goal is to help people with diabetes record, learn, and share information so that they can better manage the disease. But Dachis' vision goes further: “Increasingly inexpensive pervasive sensors, increasingly powerful smartphones, and giant cloud-computing environments will transform health care as we now know it. Not only will interactions between patients and health care professionals be drastically altered, but thanks to the real-time access to the patients' biometric data, the work of health-care professionals and paramedics will also be better and more efficient. Thanks to the unprecedented possibility of having real-time access to the telemetry of their biometric data, the entire procedure of delivering health care will undergo an overwhelming transformation. This huge ‘evolutionary leap’ will transform the role of the health care professional into something very different from how we understand it today, with a good part of the work that will be carried out by the computing power of cloud computing. This will be possible both for the volume and for the quality of the data available, combined with the ability of giving the data an intelligible meaning through the algorithms of artificial intelligence. This data can be compared with those of the medical literature, as well as with all the knowledge concerning it (especially when it will be possible to consult those anonymized cases of the various digital health records, allowing diagnosis on a global scale). Health-care techniques will be improved, the cost of care will fall dramatically, the health-care professionals and paramedics will be employed in a better and more efficient way. And all this will happen thanks to better processing of the data.”