Precision Medicine

Mark Jackson of precision medicine company NantHealth was at Health 2.0 looking for new opportunities to bring valuable cloud-based data to physicians at the point of care.

Andrew Rebhan, consultant at The Advisory Board, discusses new advances in "digital frontiers" such as artificial intelligence, internet of things, 3D printing, augmented reality and more.

Kate Birch, head of data and technology at Melbourne Genomic Health Alliance in Australia, discusses how rare conditions are being identified and successfully treated through pediatric gene testing.

Nearly 20% of Estonia's citizens are gene donors, which is useful when it comes to implementing precision medicine, says Kalle Killar, deputy secretary general at the Ministry of Social Affairs.

The real challenge in precision medicine is achieving precision in analytics and experiments to get very specific results for very specific people, says William Moss, CEO, Seven Bridges Genomics Inc.

Bryce Olson, healthcare strategist at Intel, shares how he kicked cancer thanks to precision medicine and his work to empower cancer patients.

Neil Jordan, Worldwide Health Leader and Connector at Microsoft, discusses the best use of AI in healthcare, as well as issues involved with its implementation, including ethics and regulations.

Successful healthcare transformation depends on merging compliance with convenience in tools used by clinicians, says Elena Bonfiglioli, Microsoft's Managing Director of Health and Life Sciences for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Looking to move healthcare systems out of the last century, the software giant is focusing on areas such as AI, population health, public cloud, precision medicine and virtual services, says Microsoft Chief Medical Officer Simon Kos.

Getting insights about a patient's environment and lifestyle is just as critical as understanding genomic data, according to University of Colorado Assistant Professor Mustafa Ozkaynak.