Barry Baines

the role that you've been able to play with the informatics piece and its impact on menopause.

So I'll just kind of plant a few stakes in the ground over there for some of our discussion, because I think that will...

you know, help because I think there is a big lack of education about, about menopause, its meaning, its importance, its significance, et cetera.

So with those, with those few thoughts, I'm going to be quiet again.

Thank you for calling on me.

No, I mean, I think what's really important here, and I kind of missed it in thinking about informatics, but I just think about, I don't want to make menopause is not a chronic disease.

Correct.

It's a natural part of life for women as they get older.

But we have these very standardized algorithms and protocols for things like high blood pressure, for diabetes management, for asthma.

I mean, you can go down the list and they weren't just invented.

I mean, it, you know, it took a long time to get that, but unless you have a solid database, you know,

to start looking at it.

It's hard to develop a standardized best practice treatment.

And in part, some of it is because menopause has so many symptoms, you know, with it.

So that it's, and actually when you look, I imagine we're going to start getting into some of the treatments with, you know, the biggest one and also controversial is hormone replacement, you know, therapy and some of the newer treatments.

things that have come out that are actually very, very promising there.

But when you have something that has such a myriad of symptoms and you take a list of the medications that potentially can be helpful, it's sort of like all over the map and nobody has, at least from my perspective, has a really good handle on this.

So I think the informatics angle is probably going to be a,

really a fundamental piece of information to really help something that affects almost more than half the population at some time in their life.

So again, we're missing that.