a great opportunity to ask so many people things about the future and advice and we thought we d ask a few questions that run a little bit of a gamut really quickly. i m sorry. you ll also be looking into the lens. okay. we thought it would be interesting to ask you in the year 2025 what s the thing you are most certain about? more people will have access to their own health information. what do you dream for something in 2025? that less people have to say good-bye too soon to people they love. that s a great one. can you tell us a secret? i don t have many secrets. are you a scientists or a technologist or an entrepreneur? i think entrepreneur. i was trained as an engineer but now my time is spent on doing whatever it takes to realize this mission. theranos is a combination of therapy and diagnosis. if we can shift toward a model in where we are determining the onset in time for therapy to be effective, we will change outcomes. you founded this co
with the walgreens rollout, the problems at theranos were magnified. instead of shutting down until the edisons could perform all the tests on the theranos menu, elizabeth and her team invented a work around, designed to create the illusion of a new technology. for most tests, they were forced to use venous blood, drawn with needles. but to keep elizabeth s finger stick dream alive, theranos modified some of those machines so it would work with diluted capillary samples. and for a handful of patient tests, the company used the old edison prototype elizabeth had pitched to walgreens. what we have worked to do is eliminate the error and durability that s associated with human processing samples. when elizabeth says the whole process was automated from start to finish was yeah, that was a stretch. it would sometimes take six hours just to set up the system before we could even run the
the edisons could perform all the tests on the theranos menu, elizabeth and her team invented a work ja workaround designed to create the illusion of a new technology. for most tests, they were forced to use venous blood, drawn with needles. but to keep elizabeth s finger stick dream alive, theranos modified some of those machines so it would work with diluted capillary samples. and for a handful of patient tests, the company used the old edison prototype elizabeth had pitched to walgreens. what we ve worked to do is eliminate the error and variability that s associated with human processing of samples. when elizabeth says the whole process was automated from start to finish was yeah, that was a stretch. it would sometimes take six hours just to set up the system before we could even run the patient samples. i was, like, filling up containers, doing so many manual things with my hands.