Based on track record, instinct, flexible thinking and the element of surprise, one of today’s leading visionaries takes the stage to identify five inevitable and powerful trends the digital health ecosystem needs to understand to continue to develop and flourish. These movements point the way to the future for connected health, and have big implications for health tech developers, providers, payors and consumers.

1. 5 Trends for a Thriving Internet of Healthy Things
Joseph Kvedar, MD

3. Automating Healthcare
Data
Aggregation/
Normalization
New Sensors
Analytics Engagement

4. Trend 1: sensors that give insight

5. Muse and Spire Interact
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6. Trend 2: easier capture of patient-generated data
What’s needed: frictionless data capture

7. Trend 3: Pharma moving towards digital
therapeutics
What’s needed: break the business model
A-Fib Connect

8. Trend 4: Big Data to Artificial Intelligence
But…Doctors are afraid of AI
Amazon Echo IBM Watson Health Lumiata

9. 1300 MDs surveyed
Top concern, make it better for me!
80%worried about liability
Privacy/security
EMR integration
Reimbursement
45%are enthusiastic
12%have adopted