E79 - Vishal Kapoor - How Real-World Data Analytics Empowers Precision Medicine

Vishal Kapoor is a senior analytics leader and data science professional with more than a decade of experience working in the data analytics industry.

He has been recognised as the IAPA Top 25 Analytics Leader in Australia 2021.

Currently, Vishal is working as the Head of Innovation at Prospection, a data analytics solutions provider for the healthcare industry. Prospection is a pioneer in healthcare data analytics. The company utilises predictive analytics and machine learning with real-world healthcare data to unearth insights that help research, develop and target better healthcare outcomes for patients.

Vishal is also an Advisor at Skoutli, a service that scouts locations and vehicles for shoots for influencers, photographers and production companies. He was also a founding member of INGRITY, a progressive data analytics services providing company.

Apart from that, Vishal had worked in various senior analytics, and leadership roles at organisations like Mu Sigma Inc, Infosys, and Bayesia.

His work experience ranges with clients across the US, Singapore, India, and Australia, including Fortune 500 companies.

Vishal utilises his expertise in maths, data science, technology, cognitive and behavioural sciences to develop a culture of design thinking and extreme experimentation in organisations. This approach to culture helps in the effective creation and consumption of analytics solutions in organisations.

In this exclusive episode, Vishal shares about his role at Prospection and how he helps develop the team to become a master innovator. He also shares:

• His view on the importance of asking the right and good questions.
• How to build a culture that fosters innovation, which includes how to fail and learn fast.
• How Prospection is innovating in the healthcare industry.
• How they work with pharmaceutical companies and doctors in using real-world evidence and data to deliver insight into improving outcomes of different healthcare issues and treatments.
• By providing access to the patient insights, they allow the clients to provide the most effective treatment pathways.
• Vishal also shares a real use case on how they help to identify the overlooked demographic segments for medical intervention through the use of advanced data science techniques and the availability of aggregate patient-level data.

If you are a professional from the healthcare industry, this is certainly the episode for you to peek into the mind that helps to build innovation using data science in the healthcare industry.

On the other hand, if you are in management, you would also benefit from listening to how Vishal works to flourish innovation and how Prospection uses real-world evidence-based data to make a healthier world.

This episode is sponsored by the new program at DDA. It’s an analytics leader mentorship program for senior managers and executives in the business team who want to develop a data-driven business to drive customer experience excellence. For a small one-off annual fee, you get to book Unlimited Strategy Sessions for a Full Year. For more information about this program, please reach out to DDA!

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