DJ Patil is a smart guy who knows data – and he’ll play a key role in President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative. But what the White House’s first-ever Chief Data Scientist is short on? On-the-job experience in healthcare.
But that could be OK. Patil has worked at some Silicon Valley giants – LinkedIn, eBay, PayPal, Skype, and venture firm Greylock Partners. President Obama personally sought out Patil for the job – and now, he’ll represent the government’s newly heavy focus on big data, particularly as it applies to healthcare.
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