Anca Petre, PhD, is a digital health entrepreneur passionate about the impact of emerging technologies in healthcare.

She is the co-founder of 23 Consulting, a Paris-based firm known for detecting the latest tech trends in healthcare. She is also a podcast producer at MedShake, where she gives patients and health professionals a platform to tell their stories.

Anca is also an advisor for health tech startups such as SUN, a dynamic and engaged young patients' community.

Anca completed a double degree in pharmaceutical sciences at Université Paris-Saclay and management at INSEEC Business School. During her PhD, she specialized in the use of blockchain technology in the healthcare industry. In her work as an international thought leader, she is focused on bringing new technologies to the health industry and involve patients in the digital innovation process.

As a TEDx speaker, she travels the world to give inspiring and impactful talks that raise awareness about tomorrow's health system and instill change.

Disa Lee Choun has years of experience working in technology and innovation especially in the pharmaceutical industry. She is the co-founder of RND Synergy LTD providing consultancy to start-up companies in life sciences and technology. She was also an advisor to a non-profit organisation bringing Clinical Trials to Africa and other volunteering work. Prior to joining the pharma, she was a co-founder of an IT company.

Disa has an EMBA in Pharmaceutical Business from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and Licentiate and B.S. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.

In 2017, Disa started a consortium, a cross-industry collaboration on blockchain via PhUSE. Through her work in emerging technology and digital transformation, she was awarded Top 100 Women in Technology, Financial Times top 100 most influential BAME Leader, and featured on the cover of CIO Look celebrating Women in Tech 2019. Her passion is on closing the gap for patients with unmet needs by converging science with the right digital solution(s).

Chapter 1: The patient empowerment movement Chapter 2: Patient data ownership Chapter 3: From raw data to insights Chapter 4: Applications of health data Chapter 5: Foundation of Patient-driven digital health systems Chapter 6: Afterword: Future 20-50 years, what healthcare would look like