Jonathan Honiball, Senior Director, Customer Research, PCG talks about the challenges of medical device development, using genomic data for personalized treatments, impact of the miniaturization of sensors, and privacy and hacking concerns due to the changing functions of medical devices.

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PCG

Wendy Nilsen, PhD. Program Director of the Smart and Connected Health, National Science Foundation explains the role of the NSF in funding basic research on the convergence of technology and healthcare, challenge and promise of developing personalized health programs, and addressing the need to prevent and not just treat diseases.

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NSF.gov

Santosh Kumar PhD, Center Director NIH Center for Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-To-Knowledge University of Memphis talks about addressing health needs through awareness of body functions and the natural environment and developing predictive models to provide proactive and reactive information for patients and caregivers.

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MD2K.org

Anna McCollister-Slipp, co-founder Galileo Analytics and Chief Advocate, Participatory Research, Scripps Translational Science Institute talks about using tools from the financial industry to analyze complex health data and leading research and development efforts into new scientific frontiers while enabling patients to actively pariticpate in their own treatments.

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Galileo Analytics

Brenda Wiederhold PhD, Executive Director, Virtual Realtiy Medical Center reveals how she is using bio-feedback and virtual reality technology to help patients overcome a fear of flying and other phobias and panic disorders, which patients are helped most by this treatment and creating new pathways in the brain.

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VRPhobia

Dr. Este Geraghty, Chief Medical Officer and Health Solutions Director, Esri highlights the value of visualization and maps to analyze health related data and why place matters when trying to understand individual as well as population health challenges.

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Esri

Gary Conkright, CEO and Co-Founder, PhysIQ talks about seeing the body as a complex system, using machine learning technology to improve identification of early warning signs, creating personalized baseline body-function norms and the value of sensors that are providing ICU quality data.

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PhysIQ

Donna Spruijt-Metz PhD, Director USC mHealth Collaboratory discusses the use of sensors and self-reported data to provide just in time adaptive intervention to address obesity particularly in children.

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Metz Lab

Walter De Brouwer, PhD, CEO, Scanadu talks about democratizing medicine by introducing consumer products that can test vital signs and vital fluids, the need to study health as it changes, and the value of real-time data in creating personalized baselines and influencing behavior.

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Scanadu

Adam Pellegrini, Vice President of Digital Health, Walgreens.com Motivating and rewarding healthy behavior by integrating personal data allows Walgreens to provide more convenient 24/7 service, popularity of scan to refill and other mobile app functions, and the changing role of the pharmacists.