Sponsored By:
Bill Geary, Cofounder & Partner - Flare Capital Partners
Robert Mittendorff, MD, MBA, Partner - Norwest Venture Partners
Jeff Immelt, Former CEO - GE
Interviewed By:
Bill Geary, Cofounder & Partner - Flare Capital Partners
Financing and exits may not be the most important factor in measuring the success of a digital health start-up. But adoption and acceptance can’t happen without capital. We’ll begin the day with a state of investments overview by industry tracker and partner StartUp Health.
Katya Hancock, Partner - StartUp Health
Introduced By:
Robert Mittendorff, MD, MBA, Partner - Norwest Venture Partners
Brad Burkett, Managing Director - Match Point Partners
We tapped into our advisory board to build two all-star teams to debate East and West Coast viewpoints on healthcare innovation.
Moderated By:
Peter Micca, Partner - Deloitte
East Coast Team:
Carl Byers, Executive Partner - F-Prime Capital Partners
Steve Kraus, General Partner - Bessemer Venture
Partners
West Coast Team:
Lynne Chou, Partner - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Mohamad Makhzoumi, General Partner - NEA
Investors, entrepreneurs, and payers are working to bring fundamental change to the insurance industry, committing millions of dollars and hours. But are we going far enough? Is the current group of start-ups and established payers capable of inciting the necessary revolution? What are the most significant concerns - and the greatest opportunities - facing these insurance insurgents?
Moderated By:
Carolyn Magill, CEO - Aetion
Participants:
Seth Blackley, President & Co-Founder - Evolent Health
A.G. Breitenstein, General Partner - Optum
Ventures
Alan Warren, Chief Technology Officer & SVP, Engineering - Oscar Health
Rachel Winokur, Chief Business Officer - Bright Health
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Two years ago, healthcare exec Deborah DiSanzo took the top spot at IBM Watson Health to integrate the company’s cognitive computer platform into healthcare’s wide ranging constituents from pharmaceutical companies to pharmacies. How does she measure success? What’s the next challenge facing the tech leaders trying to tame healthcare costs and improve patient care?
Deborah DiSanzo, General Manager - IBM Watson Health
Interviewed By:
Lisa Suennen, Senior Managing Director, Healthcare Investing - GE Ventures
Introduced By:
Doug Greenberg, Senior Client Partner - Korn Ferry
Telehealth, concierge models and apps definitely can bridge the gap between primary care and specialist physicians and patients. But are they handling enough traffic to make a real difference? How are physicians, patients and payers responding? How are traditional providers responding? We’ll talk with the CEOs from companies with very different approaches, chart their progress, understand their mutual challenges and take measure of the risks that still lay ahead.
Moderated By:
Nancy Brown, Venture Partner - Oak HC/FT
Participants:
Ido Schoenberg, MD, Chairman & CEO - American Well
Rajeev Singh, CEO - Accolade
Owen Tripp,
Co-Founder & CEO - Grand Rounds
Introduced By:
Michael Hanewich, Managing Director, Head of Life Science and Healthcare Venture Capital Relationships - Silicon Valley Bank
Few have a better grasp of how public policy can inspire, influence and yes, impede healthcare innovation than Karen DeSalvo, MD, the former Acting Assistant Secretary for Health and National Coordinator for Health IT. Dr. DeSalvo’s career has taken her from the frontlines of healthcare - including the emergency response to Hurricane Katrina – to leading the charge to develop an interoperable health IT system.
Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, Former National Coordinator for Health IT and Acting Assistant Secretary for Health - US Department of Health and Human Services
Interviewed By:
Robert Mittendorff, MD, MBA, Partner - Norwest Venture Partners
Sponsored By:
Presented To:
Amy Abernethy, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer, Chief Scientific Officer & SVP, Oncology - Flatiron Health
Interviewed By:
Brandon Hull, Managing Partner - Cardinal Partners
Introduced By:
Lawrence Wittenberg, Partner - Goodwin
Two of the principal architects of AI’s role in healthcare see enormous opportunity ahead. But so many questions linger. What applications will be the most powerful? Where will clinicians and consumers more easily accept AI’s judgment? What type of healthcare entities – be they corporations, payers, providers – will be enhanced by AI and which will be undermined? This frank exchange between two titans will answer those questions and more.
Moderated By:
Bill Geary, Cofounder & Partner - Flare Capital Partners
Participants:
Atul Butte, MD, PhD, Director & Distinguished Professor, Institute for Computational Health Sciences - University of California, San Francisco
Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, Professor & Department Chair - Harvard Medical School
We just went through this surge of $30+ B being spent on MU. Did Epic and Cerner take up all the oxygen in the room, or is there a new wave of capabilities that build upon the digital foundation created by MU?
Moderated By:
Todd Cozzens, Managing Partner - Leerink Transformation Partners
Participants:
Jay Desai, Co-Founder & CEO - PatientPing
Graham Gardner, CEO - Kyruus
Paul Roscoe,
CEO - Docent Health
Revolution isn’t inexpensive or easy. Healthcare systems are caught between diminishing revenues and rising costs. Technology is the answer, but how are providers identifying the right technology and securing buy-in from physicians and administrators while also keeping an eye on the bottom line? We’ll ask these questions to the transformational strategy champions at three of the nation’s leading networks.
Moderated By:
Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA, CEO - Partners In Health
Participants:
Peter Fleischut, MD, Chief Transformation Officer - New York Presbyterian
Sara Vaezy, Chief Digital Strategy
Officer - Providence St. Joseph Health
Kate Walsh, President & CEO - Boston Medical Center
Christy Wyskiel, Senior Advisor to the President
- Johns Hopkins University
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Any advancement of Digital Health innovation will depend upon the opportunity for exits for VCs. Our partner and sponsor Piper Jaffray will assess recent public market performance and forecast what public investors may favor in 2018.
Sean Wieland, Research Analyst - Piper Jaffray
Troyen Brennan, MD, EVP & Chief Medical Officer - CVS Health
Interviewed By:
Lonny Reisman, Founder & CEO - HealthReveal
Introduced By:
Dan Gebremedhin, MD, Principal - Flare Capital Partners
As if their jobs weren’t difficult enough, the uncertainty of ACA and strain on payers is putting even more pressure on health system CFOs, the professionals facing stagnating – or declining – revenue, rising costs and widening losses. How do healthcare systems weather this storm while also bringing in the innovation that will ultimately help them cut costs and improve patient care?
Moderated By:
Keith Figlioli, Partner - Long River Ventures
Participants:
Ric Magnuson, EVP & CFO - Allina Health
Jeff Taylor, SVP & CFO - St Luke’s Health System
Doug Vanderslice, SVP & CFO - Boston Children's Hospital
Bill Geary, Cofounder & Partner - Flare Capital Partners
Robert Mittendorff, MD, MBA, Partner - Norwest Venture Partners
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