Moneyball Medicine

Dr. Chris Boone, vice president and lead for global medical epidemiology and big data analysis at Pfizer, is a health futurist, social entrepreneurs, executive, professor, patient advocate, and self-proclaimed "data hippie." He says he long aimed to be CEO of a health system, but eventually embraced his "true self" as a student of informatics, business intelligence, and big data analytics. "I come into the world of pharma not as a conventional or traditional pharma guy but as someone who cut his teeth in the provider world," he says. "It's just something that came naturally to me. There was always an intellectual curiosity about how we can do things better, and how we could ultimately disrupt the way that we currently treat patients, and ultimately transform the system for the betterment of patients."In the pharma business, he believes that big data analytics can disrupt clinical research and development and ultimately the commercialization of therapies for patients. He's an advocate for the use of real-world