Andrew Thompson is Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Proteus Digital Health. His vision for digital medicines is focused on expanding global access to care, dramatically increasing the value delivered by drugs and creating a more sustainable model for innovation that leverages the cell phone in everyone's pocket.

"So Andy, thank you for welcoming me here. So first question for this « Let’s Tweet over »: where are we together today?
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"We are at Proteus Digital Health's headquarters in Redwood City, California.
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"So you are the CEO and co-founder of Proteus Digital Health. What is your company doing?
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"We make digital medicines. These are drugs that when you swallow them, talk to your mobile phone. The idea here is to provide patients with measurement, feedback, and behavioral cues in the context of their own life-flow, so that they can make more appropriate use of their medicines and perhaps some better health choices.
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"OK. You've been working within the digital health field for a long time now, managing successful companies before this one. What do you think of digital health? Do you think it's going well? How do you see digital health evolve in the future?
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We exist at an incredibly exciting moment in the history of the world. The world has never been more free, more affluent, where people live longer and they live better lives. That's a great thing, but at the same time it brings with it an enormous demand for health services, particularly for chronic conditions. The world is awash in pandemics of dementia, diabetes, and depression. They are everywhere and that would be, on it's own, a massive problem.
But we have another great gift called technology, the mobile internet and the smartphone in everyone's pocket. Smartphone technology will become the dominant platform for the delivery of healthcare services across the globe. It's a miracle. It's going to help people manage their own care. And we are one of the companies that's going to help make that happen by making drugs that, when you swallow them, talk to the patient's own mobile phone.
Thank you very much, Andy.

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