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Accelerating digital transformation

The future of buying medicine online

Smash telemedicine together with online commerce and you get a new business model, often serving narrow, sometimes gendered, markets. Now this business must go beyond cheeky ads. What happens when buying pills on the internet grows up?

A call to action for tech in maternal health

Drug and device developers have typically ignored pregnancy. But there is a huge opportunity for tech companies to improve the lives of new mothers.

Accelerating health innovation

How can we use the lessons from Operation Warp Speed to accelerate the development of treatments for cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and other diseases?

Toward a new health technology ecosystem

Health care technology in the U.S, is notoriously wonky and fragmented, but a new crop of companies is seeking to build a layer of tools that will allow providers, payors, patients, and innovators to leverage data in novel, patient-centric ways. Dr. Ashwini Zenooz is among the executives leading the charge.

DNA sequencing takes center stage

The ability to read the genetic code of any living thing still seems like science fiction. But it’s becoming more and more ubiquitous. DNA sequencing is playing a key role in the fight against Covid-19, and could one day detect cancer with a blood test. Illumina is the company in the eye of this technological hurricane.

Unleashing the future of DNA diagnostics

Solomon Moshkevich tells the story of the evolution of Natera’s cell-free DNA technology platform — the first and only commercially available, personalized test for residual disease detection in cancer. The approach, he says, has unique advantages in cancer monitoring and treatment and in clinical trials.

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Tech vs. Covid-19

How can technology help in a pandemic? What went right and wrong in the battle between big tech and a pandemic virus.

How understanding T-cells could change medicine

COVID-19 put the world on notice about the importance of the immune system and its soldiers, T-cells. Now DNA sequencing and machine learning allow us to understand these key disease fighters — and it could alter the way diseases are diagnosed and treated.

Integrating AI into the doctor’s office

We’ll look at case studies of how artificial intelligence is already being harnessed in medicine — and explore the hurdles to its adoption.

Can technology save health care?

Eric Schmidt, the co-founder of Schmidt Futures and former Google CEO, discusses how we can reimagine our medical system by tapping into emerging technologies and collaborating with experts across fields.

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Opening Remarks

The entrepreneur behind Amazon Pharmacy

PillPack launched as a tech startup aimed at helping ensure people don’t miss medication doses. Now, founder and entrepreneur T.J. Parker is rethinking pharmacy inside one of tech’s biggest powerhouses. He’ll reflect on the story so far and where online pharmacy is going.

Finding opportunity in forgotten patients

CityBlock Health has become a highly valuable startup by focusing on using technology to improve the care of one of health care’s most marginalized groups: people covered by Medicaid. Its top execs will explain the opportunity.

Your zip code shouldn’t be a death sentence

Despite years of advances in healthcare, medical breakthroughs too often fail to make it to the patients who need them most. At-risk populations experience major gaps in care. How can we use technology and data to make sure historically underserved populations aren’t left behind?

Healthcare’s unseen force

You really don’t know the cloud at all. A close look at the computing power that is helping to run a transformation in healthcare — and the issues of privacy and bias it raises.

How AI is changing medicine right now

Machine learning could detect eye disease, catch breast cancer, or predict when hospitalized patients will deteriorate. But when will it be ready for prime time?

What measuring blood sugar in real time means to patients

Continuous glucose monitoring, or CGM, allows diabetics to know how their blood sugar is changing. That can help them better manage their disease. A personal discussion from the frontier of technology in medicine.

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One of health tech’s biggest success stories

Dexcom has thrived by creating something diabetic patients desperately needed and wanted: a way to continuously monitor their blood glucose. The company’s CEO will discuss its trajectory and what’s ahead.

The future of behavioral health in virtual care

Doctor On Demand will give an overview of the improved behavioral health outcomes that are possible when virtual care is fully integrated to best treat the whole person.

Follow the money: What’s next in health tech

Come hear from two of the most important investors in health tech to get a look at what’s next.

Reimagining the business of medicine

Regulation and inertia make it harder for new technologies to improve the way doctors interact with patients. How can we change that in ways that will make healthcare better? Two D.C. veterans — one of whom is now an entrepreneur — will discuss.

Closing the gaps in digital health

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