Vincent Keunen

Vincent Keunen is the founder and CEO of Andaman7, a healthcare technology company he established in 2014. Here are key details about Vincent Keunen:

Background and Motivation

Vincent Keunen is a software engineer by training who has spent most of his career developing healthcare projects. In 2007, he was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), a type of blood cancer. Just three months later, his 10-year-old son Pierre was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a bone cancer.13

These personal experiences with cancer motivated Keunen to create Andaman7 in 2014 with two main goals:

1. Contribute to medical research to find effective treatments for various diseases
2. Enable patients to have control over their health data

Andaman7

Andaman7 is a patient-centric health intermediation platform that aims to:

1. Help patients better manage their health data
2. Facilitate outcome measurement for pharmaceutical companies and researchers
3. Enable disease management for hospitals and doctors2

Key features of Andaman7 include:

• A mobile personal health record for patients
• A mobile electronic healthcare record for doctors
• A secure platform to connect patients and healthcare providers2

Approach and Philosophy

Keunen's approach with Andaman7 is unique in several ways:

• Privacy-focused: Data is stored only on the patient's smartphone, not in the cloud or on servers1
• Patient-centric: The platform is designed for the benefit of patients1
• Free for patients: Andaman7 is freely available to patients and health professionals1

Professional Experience

Prior to founding Andaman7, Keunen's experience in medical IT includes:

1. Building a large-scale prevention-oriented electronic health record for Idewe
2. Developing meXi and Medibridge software platforms for secure medical messaging
3. Creating a mobile electronic health record on Newton in the early 90s2

Current Roles

In addition to his position at Andaman7, Keunen holds the following roles:

• Digital influencer at HIMSS (since December 2019)
• Digital Wallonia Champion at Agence du Numérique (since December 2017)2

Vincent Keunen continues to advocate for patient empowerment, improved healthcare communication, and innovative medical research through his work at Andaman7 and other initiatives in the healthcare technology sector.