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Welcome Remarks

Making Technology Accessible

Joshua Miele, who is blind, has made a career of making technology work for people with disabilities. He currently brings his talents to Amazon’s tablets, TVs, and Alexa-enabled devices. Miele will tell his story, from being part of a community of blind students in a basement at UC Berkeley to winning a MacArthur “genius” grant.

How Health Care Giants are Using Health Tech

Anthem is one of the largest health benefits companies in the country. Ascension is one of the biggest hospital systems. Come hear how these giants are using telemedicine and other technologies to change the way they care for patients.

Telehealth’s Time to Shine

The pandemic changed the world’s view on virtual care. Teladoc believes that will lead to a unified “virtual-first” experience that ultimately makes people healthier.

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It’s 2022. Do You Know Where Your Data Are?

Health tech is churning out an alphabet soup of AI, ML, and EHRs. But who owns all these data, and how can we make sure that someone is watching out for the patients whose records are being used? Well, the people on this panel.

Coffee Break

Can Cue Go Beyond Covid?

If you know anyone at Alphabet, you might have been jealous of the super-high-tech Covid tests (think tricorder) they were using while the rest of us stocked up on rapid antigen tests. They were made by Cue. Now this startup, which has raised $1 billion, aims to take its rapid testing technology beyond the pandemic.

How Apple is Helping Researchers Study Women’s Health

Can tracking data from an iPhone or Apple watch lead to a better understanding of how demographics and lifestyle affect infertility, menopause, or polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)? A look at using tech to study health.

Liberating Health Through Data

Giving healthcare providers and staff access to the right data allows them to see a full 360-degree view of a patient, track patient referral patterns, and ultimately improve how patients are transitioned across the continuum of care.

Google’s Chief Health Officer Speaks

Karen DeSalvo, a veteran of the Obama administration, now leads a team at Google that guides the company in creating inclusive health products and services. Hear what’s next as one of the biggest companies in technology tries to find ways to improve our broken health care system.

Lunch

Four Ideas That Could Change Health Care

If you gave a technologist a magic wand, what happens next? We ask four of the biggest names in health care for their biggest idea. Then they’ll discuss it with each other and with you.

A Billionaire’s Big Cancer Bet

Eric Lefkofsky was previously known for co-founding Groupon. But his wife’s cancer led him to create a company, most recently valued at $8.1 billion, that combines genetic sequencing and machine learning to try to change the way tumors are treated. Hear his plans.

How a Drugmaker is Looking at New Tech

From remote monitoring to machine learning, find out what Amgen is doing to help emerging technologies reach patients.

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The Digital Doctor’s Office

Using technology to improve primary care – both through virtual visits and improved care in the doctor’s office – is one of the most seemingly obvious but hard-to-implement ideas in health care. Here’s the vision of one former Apple executive.

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Inside Google’s AI Effort

Can AI embedded in smartphones detect debilitating diseases before they get out of control? Or decipher genomes? What about creating a search tool for electronic health records? A look at what one of tech’s biggest names is doing in an emerging field.

Pills, reinvented

A new technology could enable you to take a week’s — or even a month’s – worth of medication orally in just one dose. Here’s what eliminating daily pills could mean for patients.

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Big Data, Big Changes

What can data do for a hospital system? Figure out how to treat patients. What drugs not to give. Real time information on Covid waves. And much, much more.

A Chat With a Theranos Whistleblower

Tyler Shultz has called his experiences with Elizabeth Holmes a “dark cautionary tale” — but not one without humor. He’ll join us to share his insights on what there is to learn from the Theranos saga and the state of the health tech startup scene.

Closing remarks

Closing from STAT

Networking reception begins