Webinar: Revolutionizing Healthcare: Using New Technologies to Address Age Old Challenges

Trends in increasing and aging populations and unsustainable healthcare costs have long pointed to the urgency of improving the quality, access and affordability of healthcare. However, only over the past few years have technological advances – in areas from genomics to nanowire sensors – been of sufficient magnitude to make a technology mediated change in healthcare cost and practice seem within reach. And yet, despite this increasing technological innovation, healthcare’s rigid regulatory structure and entrenched market channels are dictating a slower transition. As such, incumbents and new entrants alike are also exploring new applications – such as consumerized health and wellness – as well as alternative business models, to commercialize these innovations sooner, before paving a path to the larger healthcare market. This webinar will examine:

• Challenges facing the transition from centralized to distributed screening, diagnostics & monitoring and the promise of improved access and affordability
• Emerging sensor technologies enabling this paradigm shift
• Cross-application technology platform development and partnerships as new business models to exploit the intricate parallelism between application spaces from areas as diverse as defense and environmental sensing and monitoring
• Consumerization of health and wellness as a vehicle for an accelerated entry of novel technologies to the market