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The Future of Healthcare: Trends, Opportunities & Challenges

This industry track is open for any business who would like to learn about the forces shaping the evolution of healthcare, and to understand what opportunities exist for their business in this exciting market.
Healthcare systems today have to address a host of different challenges posed by medical and scientific advancement. Developments in the field of genetics, information technologies, and nanotechnology are enforcing a more individualised approach to healthcare – often outside the hospital setting, while we have already seen the rise of user-centric healthcare and increasing patient empowerment. Concepts such as ‘the average patient’ are now viewed as outdated. And standards within modern medical systems are measured by different parameters, including: patient access to the best-available treatments and to non-institutionalised care; compliance with treatments; and, even – patient choice.

For companies active in healthcare this is a highly volatile and rapidly changing environment to operate in, but only few have started thinking proactively about what the future might look like. Many are too constrained by their standing assumptions of how the industry has operated in the past, or they have a rather narrow perspective. The Healthcare Industry Track will discuss many ambitious ideas about possible developments in the field of healthcare. These glimpses into the future of healthcare, provided by leading health, technology and innovation experts, project a fascinating new world that could become very real within the next few years.