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Episode 36

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1st Dec 2025

S3 | E36 | Why Patient Data Is the Future of Chronic Care with Nell - Founder & CEO @ Folia Health

In this episode of the ThinkData Podcast, I sat down with Nell Meosky Luo, CEO and Co-Founder of Folia Health, a health-tracking platform redefining how chronic and rare conditions are monitored and understood.

Folia was born from a deeply personal experience within Nell’s own family, where traditional healthcare systems failed to capture the nuance of day-to-day patient life. Today, Folia turns those everyday observations into structured, research-ready data that clinicians, researchers, and families can actually act on.

We explore:

• The founding story and how personal lived experience shaped Folia’s mission

• What makes Folia different from traditional patient-tracking or EPRO tools

• Why AI is only as powerful as the underlying data, and how Folia closes the real-world data gap

• How the team has scaled headcount and capability following their Series A

• How Mosaic is giving patients unprecedented control over research participation

• The future of AI-driven, patient-led insights

This conversation is a must-listen for anyone working in digital health, AI, chronic condition management, or patient-reported outcomes.

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ThinkData Podcast
The Growth Playbook: Data & AI
The Growth Playbook brings you inside the minds of the leaders shaping Data and AI. Each episode, we sit down with some of the most interesting voices in the industry, from startup founders to seasoned execs, to hear their stories, lessons learned, and the real strategies behind growing great businesses.

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Alex Hutchings

I’m the Co-Founder of the Dataworks Group, a specialist talent partner in the world of Data and Artificial Intelligence.

I’ve spent the last 15+ years working at the heart of this space, helping some of the most exciting companies on the planet build world-class Data and AI teams.

Through our roundtables, live events, and right here on the ThinkData Podcast, my goal is simple: to bring you real insights from the fastest-growing talent market in the world.

Whether you’re building, hiring, or just curious about what’s next, you’ll hear straight from the founders and senior leaders shaping the future of work.