HLTH event is the world’s largest health-tech event. With a vision to accelerate engagement across the health ecosystem through a new interactive format that encourages deeper connections and thought-provoking discussion, HLTH has been organising HLTH events since 2017. With an intimate cafe-style theme, HLTH 2022 saw big techs announcing new deals (Google and Epic ink deal), launches (Amazon launched virtual health clinics) and a lot more.
HLTH 2022 was held from 13th Nov to 16th Nov 2022 at The Venetian Expo, Las Vegas, and witnessed the coming together of global health-tech leaders and young next-gen startups.
Let’s know what happened at this futuristic event.
A Glance of What happened at HLTH 2022
During the event, many global health-tech leaders, eminent global corporates and young startups came forward and took the chance to forge partnerships and collaboration in the growing health space.
Announcements made at HLTH 2022:
- DexCare, a Providence Health software platform spinout, expanded its pilot partnership with Kaiser Permanente to handle all its on-demand virtual care scheduling and online clinic bookings across the US.
- Digital health company Babylon teamed up with Fitbit for health monitoring. It will provide members of care coordination and proactive health management to Fitbit.
- Epic, one of the largest medical records software companies in the US, signed an infrastructure agreement with Google Cloud. The company will now enable its hospital customers to run their Epic workloads on the tech giant’s cloud technology.
- Amazon launched its new virtual health clinic. It will treat common conditions like allergies, skin conditions, etc. Amazon’s chief medical officer stated the Amazon Clinic will partner with third-party telehealth providers to provide virtual health consultations.
- Mental health provider SonderMind acquired Total Brain, a neuroscience company, to revolutionise personalised therapeutic care and provide individual insights into mental well-being.
- AWS announced ten finalists for its 2022 health equity accelerator. The ten qualifying startups are Clinify Health, ClosedLoop.ai, CognitiveCare, Harmony Health, Kinetik, Pair Team, Samaritan, SameSky Health, Vincere Health and Zócalo Health.
- Bamboo Health announced its new vision to drive whole-person care by featuring its Real-Time Care Intelligence™ platform and Smart Signals™ care coordination network.
- Leading white-label digital health solution provider, Healee launched its new care flows builder. The care flows builder will allow digital health innovators to create tailored chronic care programs 10X faster by using predefined components and infrastructure.
- LG debuted its first joint virtual care solution with Amwell to address hospital workforce shortages.
- The world’s largest biotech company, Roche, introduced the navify brand for all its digital health solutions
Debates at HLTH 2022
Representatives from major healthcare players discussed private equity, value-based care, and digital health funding at HLTH 2022. Some debates that happened during the event were:
- Unicorns Aren’t Real: It discussed the sustainability of the health tech funding storm, companies emerging strong at the boom, investors reevaluating their portfolios, and the future of digital health.
- The Risky Business of Value-Based Care: It covered the challenges and benefits of value-based care while the healthcare system continues to aim toward quality over quantity.
- Private Equity: The panellists discussed how private equity firms can nourish health innovation without compromising the quality of patient care.
- Digital Health’s Financial Future: Leading investors evaluated the state of the healthcare market and gave short- and long-term predictions and advice.
- Disruption in Health: Representatives from Google, Microsoft and Salesforce discussed how they’re working to disrupt healthcare and whether the industry is open to meaningful change.
- Gen Z & Web3: How a mental health crisis among digital natives is shaping our virtual future?
- Carolyn Starrett, Flatironhealth CEO, gave a presentation on how her company is using the latest breakthroughs in real-world evidence, machine learning, and AI to shape the future of cancer care for clinicians, researchers and patients alike.
5 Key Takeaways of HLTH2022
Modern Healthcare covered the five key takeaways from HLTH 2022:
- Economic troubles loom large in digital health owing to uncertainty in private and public markets
- Given the current economic conditions, investors are keener towards profitable and reasonable growth startups.
- Despite harsh economic realities, investors and founders expressed optimism for ROI-based startups.
- Direct-to-consumer (D2C) space will see good growth owing to its direct connection with the consumers. Investors will remain keen on this area.
- Physician burnouts are real, and we need to address them.
Eminent personalities who spoke at this event
- Rosalind “Roz” Brewer, CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance
- Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Gail K. Boudreaux, President and Chief Executive Officer of Elevance Health
- Greg A. Adam, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Kaiser Permanente
- Sam Hazen, CEO of HCA Healthcare
- Sarah London, Chief Executive Officer of Centene Corporation
- Thomas Kurian, Chief Executive Officer of Google Cloud
- Wyatt Decker, CEO of Optum Health
Awards and recognition at HLTH 2022
Here are the winners of the 2022 UCSF Health Hub Digital Awards given at HLTH 2022:
- Science 37: Winner of New Telehealth Innovation.
- INTERWELL HEALTH: Winner of Consumer Prevention.
- Akili Interactive: Winner of Mental and Behavioural Health.
- Virta Health: Winner of Employer Prevention & Wellness.
- Immunai: Winner of New Health Application Of AI.
- Innovaccer Inc: Winner of New EHR Innovation
- Biofourmis: Winner of Remote Diagnostic Tool Or Device
- Lexie Hearing: Winner of Consumer Wellness
- Clarify Health: Winner of Patient Cost Savings
- TytoCare: Winner of Clinical Diagnostic Tool
Other awards winners were:
- Carium: Received the award for cybersecurity transparency by KLAS research and Censinet
- UltraSight: The winner of the BMS Improving Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes Challenge.
- Hit like a girl pod, a media company that amplifies & celebrates women in healthcare and health IT, won the Clarity Award.
- OpticSurg: Winner of Startup Pitch Competition
About HLTH 2022
Started in 2017, HLTH offers a unique marketplace for the health community by guiding the dialogue and development of a better health ecosystem through exceptional events with industry-leading speakers, inspirational digital material, webinars, and mission-driven initiatives.
HLTH Event sees the presence of high-profile dignitaries, Nobel laureates, leaders of the World Economic Forum, and tech evangelists from across the globe.
HLTH 2022 structure
Celebrating its fifth year, HLTH 2022 saw a plethora of new and innovative activities that demonstrated significant upgrades, like a special emphasis on an open and participatory floor plan to facilitate ideal networking possibilities.
Its content sessions included the most interesting, intriguing thinkers and industry experts. Stages were grouped by format rather than topic to allow attendees with diverse interests to travel between them. HLTH 2022 also had smaller, more intimate cafe-style eateries throughout the floor, rather than holding meals away from the exhibitions, talks and activities.
To make networking effortless, HLTH 2022 had efficient concierge-style meetings, which gave unprecedented access to decision-makers, healthcare buyers and a community of shared interests.
Three valuable activities at the event were:
- Hosted Buyer Program
A curated matchmaking program that paired health buyers with solution providers looking for the latest cutting-edge solutions. With double opt-in, 15-minute 1:1 meetings, HLTH 2022 maximised their time to drive growth.
- Funding Founders Program
This networking program matched startup executives with leading investors in a series of efficient and productive 10-minute 1:1 meetings.
- HLTH Connect Lounge
Through HLTH’s digital platform, it provided attendees with an option to mingle with others by selecting a meeting spot in the HLTH Connect lounge located in the exhibit hall.
What was new at HLTH 2022?
HLTH also launched a series of new features and activities at HLTH 2022 like
- WELL by HLTH
WELL by HLTH was the debut of ‘event inside an event” for nextgen consumer-focused health and wellness. It addressed the huge move towards holistic and preventative treatment. It hosted brands in the categories of wearables, fitness, mental wellness/mindfulness, weight management, nutrition, longevity, sexual health, sleep health, psychedelics, cannabis, and food innovation.
- The StartUp Health Festival
To make it a leading event in digital health innovation, The StartUp Health Festival saw its debut at HLTH 2022. The activities here focused on StartUp Health’s moonshots and transformer community of startups. It held content sessions with leading healthcare experts, leadership interviews in the StartUp Health Studio, workshops, VIP and scheduled meetings, pitches and showcases, and more.
HLTH 2022 also provided a platform to recognize the acceleration of digital health innovation in the past two years with partnered startup programs, such as the UCSF Digital Health Awards Grand Finale, Cedars Sinai Demo Days, and an expansion of their own HLTH Pitch Competition and the Funding Founders program focused on matching qualified investors with startup executives.
