Andy A. Liu, CEO of CW Data Technologies, a joint venture between WuXi AppTec and China Electronics Data Corporation at the intersection of Big Data and healthcare, discusses emerging trends in healthcare technology and Hong Kong’s potential as an innovation incubator.
Andy, prior to your current role as CEO of CW Data Technologies, you worked across pharmaceutical multinationals like Merck, UCB Pharma as well as President of Asia-Pacific and China for IQVia (Formerly IMS Health). Across your extensive industry experience, could you share some of the industry trends of greatest interest to you?
Interest in healthcare has definitely grown over the past two decades, which you can see from the number and scale of investments in this industry, particularly in China as well as Asia Pacific. This is extremely exciting. Many PE and VC funds are now setup to look specifically at the healthcare space. They are positioning themselves to take advantage of the healthcare investment opportunities. I want to highlight three observations.
I firmly believe that this is the most exciting time for healthcare because of the technology we have at our disposal right now, be it drug discovery, genomics, big data, wearables, or digital health
