The Importance of Data Strategy and Infrastructure in AI’s Potential

Raj Indupuri, CEO, eClinical Solutions

Pharmaceutical Executive: How important is data strategy and infrastructure in realizing the full potential of AI in pharma, and what best practices have you seen for ensuring AI-driven insights are accurate and actionable?

Raj Indupuri: Yeah, so that’s an excellent question, and that’s in terms of data infrastructure. That’s kind of foundation without data, there is no AI, right? So to bring these AI capabilities that users can trust. In terms of adoption or scale, it has to start with strong data foundations.

So that’s another differentiator that we have as a company, because we start as a data company, we build infrastructure so that we can bring all this patient data together, and then we can embed this intelligence on governed data, right? So having those controls, those guardrails, the safety practices around our own data, right, is incredibly important if you want to benefit from the use and adoption of AI and also the performance of these models, right?

So the Tech has evolved so much that it’s with prompts you can build this intelligence now, so you don’t need to be a data scientist anymore, right? That’s good and the bad, right? So the bar to build AI capabilities have reduced significantly that on the other side right for us to build responsible AI. So you got to ensure that there are a lot of guardrails. So going back to your question, strong data foundations is an imperative if you want to have any chance to have success with AI.

Raj Indupuri

CEO, eClinical Solutions

A technologist with over 25 years of industry experience, Raj Indupuri is responsible for establishing the eClinical Solutions vision and future-looking technology strategy. He is deeply passionate about fostering innovation to revolutionize the Life Sciences industry with ground-breaking technologies that will modernize clinical trials and bring treatments to patients faster. As an industry veteran who has been part of the evolution of Life Sciences and clinical data management for over two decades, Raj has an astute business vision to realize the digital future and enable progress and potential with data and analytics at the core of the company’s innovative products and solutions. Raj is responsible for the overall direction and management of the company and is a Mechanical Engineer with an MBA from Boston University who firmly believes data is the new fuel that will drive human progress.