Necessity as the father of innovation – Howard Look on sharing data, and a stage, with President Obama
In 2011, Howard Look’s daughter Katie was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Look, a computer engineer who had previously worked at TiVo, Pixar, and Amazon, found the experience of accessing Katie’s health care data to be “like crawling through broken glass.” So he decided to do something about it.
Recently honored by the White House as a Precision Medicine Champion of Change, Howard is the founder and CEO of Tidepool, a nonprofit organization that is creating open source software to help Type 1 Diabetes patients liberate their data from diabetes devices and help them manage it on a secure, easy-to-use platform. His innovative work brought him to Medicine X in 2014 and 2015, and on February 25th, it took him back to the White House where he sat one seat away from the President of the United States to join him for a moderated panel discussion about the future of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI)!
Howard’s journey from technologist to health care innovator and thought leader exemplifies the ideals of Everyone Included™. Medicine X was excited to have the opportunity to interview Howard after his participation in the PMI Summit to learn more about the experience of sharing the stage with President Obama, and discuss his involvement with the Medicine X community.
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