Eric Lefkofsky, who has helped establish Groupon and other online businesses as InnerWorkings and Echo Global Logistics, has founded the healthcare programming startup Tempus. Tempus now has over a hundred employees, including doctors and data scientists located on a 20,000-sq genomics lab.

 

Music Donation by Eric Lefkofsky

 

Tempus is establishing a platform that gathers information from patient therapeutic diagrams. This information is then used to help doctors utilize past patient information to determine the best procedures and treatment plans.

 

Eric Lefkofsky says Tempus is currently dealing with plans to apply this innovation to illnesses such as diabetes, cardiovascular malady, and neurological issues and plans to expand Tempus into the mainlands of Asia, Europe, and Australia.

 

This revolutionary company offers its services to over fifty National Cancer Centers and several medical clinics across America. Eric Lefkofsky has stated that he hopes this organization will serve at least one in four people in America burdened with disease.

 

About Eric Lefkofsky

Eric Lefkofsky is a serial entrepreneur who has founded Lightbank, a venture fund investing in technologies, co-founded and is serving as Chairman of Groupon, a e-commerce marketplace, co-founder of Mediaoceon, a provider of integrated media technology, Echo Global Logistics, a transportation and logistics outsourcing firm, InnerWorkings, a managed print and promotional provider and a founding investor of Uptake Technologies, an analytics platform for the world’s fastest-growing industries.

 

In 2006, Eric Lefkofsky founded the Lefkofsky Family Foundation, a private establishment with his wife Liz. He is also a Trustee of Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Science and Industry and World Business Chicago and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater Company. He is working as an aide educator at the University of Chicago. He graduated from the University of Michigan and received a JD at the University of Michigan Law School.

 

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