SXSW 2019:

Healthcare’s Digital Disruptors: Hope vs. Hype

Peer into any medical bag and you may see a stethoscope or a blood pressure cuff – technologies that are both more than a century old. While these tools advanced the practice of medicine, today’s technologies hold tremendous promise for improving the health and well-being of countless lives. But what about the patient-physician relationship? A computer in the exam room may provide the physician with integrated and actionable information yet interfere with the patient-physician interaction. So how do you optimize innovations to sort hope from hype?

View this recording from this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) of health care luminaries as they discuss some of the latest technologies and their potential to improve the quality of care, lower costs, and make health care more human. Technologies discussed include:

• Predictive analytics
• Machine learning
• Precision medicine