The payment scheme also allowed him to design the clinic around the things that sick, expensive patients most need and value, rather than the ones that pay the best.

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Today were delighted if one out of five things we take to the clinic shows efficacy, says Martin Haslanger, president of Lillys Sphinx Pharmaceuticals subsidiary, which does robochemistry.

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Using big data in heatlhcare is the direction things are going and you have Cleveland Clinic with their Hadoop platform as well.

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"One of the things I do whenever I bring a solar suitcase to a clinic in another country is, I really let the health-care workers know that there are people on the other side of the world who care about them, " she said.

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