[dekhn]

This is a common trope in the tech field- successful tech person who is good at tech gets disease and wants to help cure it. It's easy to generate a lot of data these days (whole genome sequencing, various tests) but the reality is that turning that data into actionable knowledge is remarkably difficult.

Much of the red tape exists to help people avoid making common mistakes that aren't obvious until you've been through the process a number of times (other red tape just exists to gatekeep unnecessarily).

[inglor_cz]

To be somewhat more optimistic, digging useful connections and correlations from a heap of data is something that AI is really good at.

IIRC there is a cancer lab in Vienna, Austria, where they feed genome sequence of a tumor into an AI and it sometimes recommends unexpected-but-efficient treatments.