I spend a lot of my time this year putting together the agenda for our annual Forbes Healthcare Summit, which will be held this year on December 3 and 4. It's an invite-only event where we gather some of the top minds in health care. This year will feature patients, entrepreneurs, and top researchers who are all changing the way we care for the sick using new and potentially better sources of data. I'm psyched.
It's still possible to get an invite to be an attendee. Send an email to healthcare@forbes.com.
Sponsors for the event include Medidata, PwC, Allscripts, AthenaHealth, Covance, Optum, Docusign, IMS Health, and SAS.
Forbes Healthcare Summit 2014: Smart Data Transforming Lives
Wednesday, December 3
6:00 pm Reception Featuring a showcase of innovations.
7:00 pm Welcome: Smart Data Transforming Lives
- Steve Forbes, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media
7:15 pm Drug Development in a Time of Ebola The world is facing the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Now is the time to test new drugs and vaccines. The FDA’s top minds tell us how we can do it.
- Edward Cox, Director, Office of Antimicrobial Products, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Luciana Borio, Assistant Commissioner for Counterterrorism Policy, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Moderator: Matthew Herper, Senior Editor, Forbes Media
Thursday, December 4
7:00 am Registration/Breakfast
8:00 am Introduction and Overview Matthew Herper, Senior Editor, Forbes Media
8:05 am Welcome: Right Here, Right Now
- Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media
8:15 am NantHealth Goes Global Last year at the Forbes Healthcare Summit, Patrick Soon-Shiong unveiled a sweeping vision of healthcare’s digital future. Now he says it’s getting even bigger.
- John Chen, Executive Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer, BlackBerry
- Tim Kelsey, National Director for Patients & Information, NHS England
- Patrick Soon-Shiong,Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, NantHealth
Moderator: Steve Forbes, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media
8:50 am DATA SPOTLIGHT: How Scientists Taught My Immune System to Kill My Cancer
- Doug Olson, President, Tekjo Consulting
8:55 am A Tipping Point for Cancer Treatment New approaches in immune treatments and genetic technology mean that we’re making progress in ways that were previously unimaginable. Is vanquishing cancer possible?
- Alan Auerbach, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Puma Biotechnology
- Bob Hugin, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Celgene Corporation
- Richard Klausner, Chief Medical Officer, Illumina, and Former Director, National Cancer Institute
- Sandra Swain, Medical Director, Washington Cancer Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center
- Moderator: Matthew Herper, Senior Editor, Forbes
9:35 am DATA SPOTLIGHT: How Much Should Drugs Cost? A Big Data Solution
- Murray Aitken, Senior Vice President, IMS Health and Executive Director, IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
9:45 am Who Owns Your Data? The creation of new drugs and diagnostics depends on linking genetic and medical data. But who owns that information? You? Your hospital? Your insurer? The way we answer these questions will determine whether or not we get new treatments.
- Linda Avey, Co-Founder & Chief Executive, We Are Curious
- Jamie Heywood, Co-Founder & Chairman, PatientsLikeMe
- Eric Schadt, Professor & Chair, Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Director, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- George Yancopoulos, Chief Scientific Officer, Regeneron, and President, Regeneron Laboratories
- Moderator: Matthew Herper, Senior Editor, Forbes
10:25 am BREAK (Atrium)
10:45 am Health Insurance: Prescriptions for Populations How will we use data to improve the health of every person an insurer covers? That will be the key to success in the future.
- David Goldhill, Author, Catastrophic Care and President & Chief Executive Officer, Game Show Network
- Dan Hilferty, President & Chief Executive Officer, Independence Blue Cross
- Kevin Nazemi, Co-Founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer, Oscar Insurance
- Samuel Nussbaum, Chief Medical Officer & Executive Vice President, Clinical Health Policy, WellPoint
- Moderator: Avik Roy, Contributor, Forbes Media and Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
11:25 am DATA SPOTLIGHT: How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Health Insurers
- Colin Hill, Co-Founder, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, GNS Healthcare
11:30 am Making Medicine High Tech for Real Because of government incentives, U.S. doctors and hospitals are finally adopting electronic health records. But if prices are extortionate and data are not shared everybody loses. How can we win?
- Paul Black, President & Chief Executive Officer, Allscripts
- Jonathan Bush, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, athenahealth
- Robert Robbins, President & Chief Executive Officer, Texas Medical Center
- Richard Rothman, Founder, Rothman Institute and James Edward Professor, Thomas Jefferson University
- Moderator: Erin DuPree, Chief Medical Officer & Vice President, Joint Commission for Transforming Healthcare
12:10 pm LUNCH
1:30 pm The Top Health Industry Trends to Watch in 2015 A new health economy is taking shape. Next year the $2.8 trillion U.S. healthcare industry will finally begin to look and feel more like like the rest of the business world: catering to wired customers who expect one-click service and fast access to data.
- Kelly Barnes, Partner and U.S. Health Industries Leader, PwC
1:45 DATA SPOTLIGHT: Preventing The Next Ebola
- Dune Ives, Senior Director, Vulcan Philanthropy & Co-Manager, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
1:50 pm Radical Transparency: Let’s Talk About Our Genomes Senior Editor Matthew Herper just had his DNA sequenced. Top genomics expert Robert Green, also Matt’s doctor, had already taken the plunge. With the help of experts in the audience, they'll lead a powerful, personal conversation about what it means to know what's in your genes.
- Patient: Matthew Herper, Senior Editor, Forbes
- Doctor: Robert Green, Director, G2P Research Program, Harvard Medical School
2:10 pm DATA SPOTLIGHT: How to Cut a Year Off Your Clinical Trial
- William Klitgaard, Chief Information Officer, Covance
2:20 pm Learning From Real Life Right now, data collection is a laborious process. But very soon all the information about a patient will be gathered automatically, in real time. That will change everything.
- Glen de Vries, President, Medidata Solutions
- Jeff Hammerbacher, Chief Scientist, Cloudera
- Dena Bravata, Chief Medical Officer, Castlight Health
- Jeroen Tas, Chief Executive Officer, Informatics Solutions and Services, Philips Healthcare
- Moderator: Harlan Krumholz, Contributor, Forbes Media and Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine, Yale University
3:00 pm DATA SPOTLIGHT: Collaborating With Big Data
- Paul Bleicher, Chief Executive Officer, Optum Labs
3:10 pm BREAK (Atrium) 3:30 pm DATA SPOTLIGHT: How Real-Time Monitoring Changed the Way I Treat Heart Patients
- Suneet Mittal, Director, Electrophysiology, Valley Hospital Health System
3:40 pm Big Data Inspiration What do patients think of the data revolution? Hear the stories of a cancer patient who is donating his data, a woman whose lung tumors faded thanks to DNA sequencing, and a diabetic who received an artificial pancreas.
- Garth Callaghan
- Corey Wood
- Kady Helme
- Moderator: Dan Diamond, Contributor, Forbes Media and Executive Editor, Advisory Board Company
4:05 pm DATA SPOTLIGHT:Using Sound to Probe–and Cut–the Body.
- Jonathan Rothberg, Chief Strategy Officer, 4Combinator
4:15 pm Betting on the Future Three of the world’s leading healthcare investors tell us how changing incentives, big data and other new technologies will change healthcare–and where they are putting their money right now.
- Brandon Hull, Managing Partner, Cardinal Partners
- Robert Kocher, Partner, Venrock
- John Sculley, Managing Partner, Sculley Family Office
- Moderator: Moira Forbes, President & Publisher, ForbesWoman
5:00 pm Close
- Steve Forbes, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media
5:30 pm Reception (Atrium)
