🔊 Evolving healthcare to meet the needs of future generations is no small feat!  Deshpande and her team are leading the charge on improving the quality of life for people living with rare diseases through the development and delivery of innovative medicines and healthcare services. Adam and Ankita explore innovation, thought leadership, and making an impact in the pharmaceutical industry.

Host: Adam Olsen, Podcast Host - HeroX
Guest: Ankita Deshpande is the Head of Digital Health and Experience Innovation at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, the rare disease business unit of AstraZeneca.

About Ankita
Ankita is a Futurist dedicated to applying innovative methodologies in the creation of the next generation of total healthcare solutions.

Links shared in this episode:
- https://medicalfuturist.com/
- https://alexion.com/Documents/IMF-White-Paper.pdf
- https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2020/astrazeneca-to-acquire-alexion.html#

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🔉 About the Innovation Heroes podcast

The Innovation Heroes series covers all things open innovation, crowdsourcing, and remote work. It’s time to open up the airways, share strategies, engage partners, and leverage the power of crowd intelligence to expedite solutions to the pressing problems facing every level of organization, individuals, and the world. The key word here is OPEN.

We're bringing our partners in innovation, organizations who have run their own crowdsourcing projects, innovator powerhouses, and remote work legends into the spotlight. There is a global network ready to contribute time, energy and intelligence to just about any challenge that comes their way. All we need to do is provide the opportunity. Thank you for being a part of the solution. Discover the Power of the Crowd.

Adam is your Podcast Host at HeroX, connecting with innovation leaders from around the world to gain insights on how they approach innovation, the technologies they're most excited about, and how these innovations impact their industries. HeroX is a platform and open marketplace for crowdsourcing innovation that allows anyone, anywhere, to solve everyday business and world challenges using the power of the crowd.

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