“It shouldn’t be a secret but it isn’t widely known that traditional financing for life science start-ups like venture funding has significantly decreased. If we don’t find new ways to fund innovations, we could lose a generation of new treatments. -Lisa Kennedy

“One of the biggest things we’ll see in 2050 is a Digital environmental bio superconvergence: everything will have a digital heart and we will become the ‘4th Screen’. We see the seeds of this technology tethered to start-ups today. -Lisa Kennedy

NPR: Morning Edition, 12 Mar 2013: “[Self-trackers] are incredible, disruptive pioneers in a space with long-standing consequences that will be able to help us find diseases and potentially save lives,” -Dr. Lisa Kennedy, The Most Talked About Tech and Culture Trends at SXSW Interactive
The Wall Street Journal, 12 Mar 2013: “Data is the next currency for health,” -Dr. Lisa Kennedy

“In a world of over 7B people, there are only 5 types of healthcare systems -the question we need to ask is why? We must find new ways to structure health care – a search that will have an incalculable impact on health status over the next 30 years. -Lisa Kennedy

“Sensors everywhere, 1000 data points per person per second even today and 80% of all data unstructured but clinically meaningful: the Digital Bio Environmental Superconvergence is one of the biggest trends impacting healthcare over the next 20 years.
-Lisa Kennedy