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Since 2012, the Forbes Healthcare Summit has brought together over 2,000 of the top executives, policy makers, patients & scientists to address medicine's toughest problems. Controversial figures including Martin Shkreli, the most-hated man in America, & Elizabeth Holmes, the would-be billionaire who sought to change diagnostic testing, have taken the stage to answer questions from Forbes & the audience. The chief executives of Pfizer, Merck, & GlaxoSmithKline have engaged in impassioned discussions about the direction of their industry. From Susan Schneider Williams, widow of Robin Williams, recounting her husband's struggle with mental illness, to Deborah DiSanzo, General Manager of IBM Watson Health, announcing a groundbreaking partnership with Pfizer to cure cancer, Forbes Healthcare brings truly exclusive content to the stage.
The 2017 Forbes Healthcare Summit will gather world-class CEOs & industry experts to unveil the latest breakthroughs in science, address controversial issues head-on, & turn the healthcare system's challenges into new opportunities.
The Forbes Healthcare Summit 2017: Healing Medicine's Pain Points
Enough with diagnosis, let's treat the illness. For five years, The Forbes Healthcare Summit has gathered the top minds in healthcare - CEOs & scientists, billionaires & scrappy startups, doctors & patients, tech titans & venture capitalists - to try to understand the problems that plague our healthcare system. This year, we want to get specific, & focus in on cases where we can find real solutions.
2017 is a critical year for healthcare. A major legislative overhaul of the health insurance market is in the works - & uncertainty is reshaping that market no matter what happens. Players across the healthcare spectrum are struggling with how to make people healthier while containing financial cost. Telemedicine services are exploding. Just about everyone is using big data to try & shift the system. But all of its happening against severe crises, including the rising cost of care to patients & an opioid epidemic of historic proportions. We will look for problems that can be solved, & ways to create real, meaningful change.
Topics will Include
The Pharma All-Stars: The drug industry's ability to innovate - & its ability to charge high prices - are at the center of the healthcare debate, whether they like it or not. In this signature panel, we'll assemble some of the industry's top CEOs, including Pfizer's Ian Read, Merck's Ken Frazier, Allergan's Brent Saunders, & Regeneron's Len Schleifer.
The Opioid Crisis: The widespread availability - & heavy marketing - of sustained release opioid pills created a national crisis. In 2015, 33,091 Americans died of opioid overdoses. How do we close this Pandora's box?
Changing The Insurance Industry: New entrants are trying to add technology to the business of making sure patients can pay for their care. Existing players are, too. A look at how technology is altering the landscape.
Can Smartphones Save Psychiatry? Telemedicine is the start, ensuring that patients with mental illness can see a health professional. But the phone itself could be the killer app, using changes in people's voices & behaviors to identify people suffering from illnesses like depression.
Dissecting The Drug Dollar: What happens to drugs before you buy them, & what does it cost? Companies from across the system will break down the pharmaceutical supply chain.
Machine Medicine: Artificial intelligence. Machine learning. Case studies of using electronic data the right way to make discoveries & guide practice. A look at how computers will change healthcare.
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