18: Chris Wasden: Digital and Consumer Health With Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud

Dr. Chris Wasden is a Managing Director at PwC, the world’s largest professional services firm, and the Healthcare Innovation Leader. He focuses on digital and consumer health innovation by applying Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud technologies to enable technology and business model innovation. Prior to PwC he led nine startups, which included corporate ventures, venture financed startups, incubators, and family owned businesses. He is a named inventor on 20 issued patents. He has authored over 40 reports and papers on technology and business model innovation, with a focus on Social, Mobile, Analytic and Cloud technologies in digital mobile health. He leads innovation and digital mobile health engagements with large and small organization to help leadership enable transformational change that gets innovation into the DNA of the culture to drive greater growth and success on a sustainable basis. Dr. Wasden has a doctorate in human and organizational learning from George Washington University in Washington, DC, an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School, and two bachelors degrees in accounting and Asian studies from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. In this interview, Dr. Wasden provides great insights into the necessity and potential of disruptive technology in health, as well as some of the obstacles.