Derk Arts (Castor’s CEO) spoke at the Gezond Boerenverstand Symposium on September 11 2015, held at the NBC in Utrecht, about his vision for the future on data collection and data management, without being physically present! After he was introduced by Rob Konterman, a short, pre-recorded video was shown, followed by Derk attending live via Skype from Bangkok, Thailand, where he was on holiday, to answer any questions from the audience.
The video below shows Derk talking about visionary Nikola Tesla, the predictive ability of Herman Pieterse (Profess), the impossibility of virtual meetings (or maybe not?), medical devices, the banning of Excel with regard to medical research, patient portals, digital consent, standardisation (by means of SNOMED, LOINC, CDISC, FHIR, BBMRI), the publication of metadata, the linking of research data, the creating of templates for data collection and much more!