Complete event listing for
Health and Medicine
Friday, March 8
Health 2.0's SXSW Code-a-thon is a coding competition designed around building new applications and tools to foster health and wellness. Join fellow developers, designers, health care professionals, and entrepreneurs for…
Intermediate
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Jessica Goldband
We all know there are vast amounts of data about our lives - our spending, our browsing, our activity - being collected daily. With the recent explosion in inexpensive sensors and self-tracking apps, we can capture new i…
Advanced
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Jeffrey Holove, Michael V Copeland, Steph Habif, Tim Chang
As our loved ones age, we find ourselves taking on caregiver responsibilities, sometimes way earlier than we expected. Last year I became the sole caregiver for my Aunt Ginny who has Alzheimer’s. Here’s what I learned: C…
Beginner
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Virginia Ingram
I'll bet you're sitting in a chair while reading this. In fact, the time spent sitting in chairs (office desks, cars, trains, planes, movie theaters, eating) has increased substantially over the past 30 years. And relat…
Beginner
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Clayton Aynesworth, Jason Levitt
365 days. Dozens of digital health devices, apps, blood draws and genetic testing. So why would anyone voluntarily commit to such a high-maintenance, tedious and occasionally painful lifestyle? To understand more about m…
Intermediate
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Leslie Ziegler
Saturday, March 9
From the beginning, the Internet has allowed patients and caregivers to create online communities that provide something offline communities cannot. In the case of rare genetic disorders, it is a chance to connect with o…
Advanced
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Brad Davidson, Rob Malouf
Believe it or not, the US Government has been leading innovation efforts at the intersection of health and information technology. Bryan Sivak, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Chief Technology Off…
Intermediate
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Bryan Sivak, Steven Randazzo
Future healthcare innovation success will be defined by the experience delivered to patients, caregivers, and physicians in hospitals, homes and at retail. New technologies such as mobile apps, wearable sensors, and soci…
Intermediate
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, Scott Stropkay
Privacy regulations were created with consumer protection in mind, but today consumers often feel as though their own health data is on lockdown. While the healthcare system is in the midst of reform, what must we do to …
Advanced
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, Martha Wofford
Health today is everyone’s business. Industries, companies and individuals are shifting their perception of health from something to fix to something to encourage. Digital storytelling and content are uniquely positioned…
Beginner
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Christie Hefner, Jennifer Pfahler, Quincy Delight Jones III, Susie Ellis
Scientists are predicting that climate change will increase the severity and frequency of natural disasters occurring on our planet, making the need for quick, easy, and smart resources to aid in disaster recovery more c…
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Dan Diamond
Studies have already proven the link between the body and mind. What is surprising is how powerful that link is. Embodied cognition, or how the body affects our brain, has gained more recognition in science in the last f…
Beginner
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Christie Nicholson
A 2011 Healthline study uncovered compelling information on internet health searches. Desktop searches covered popular health topics: cancer, weight loss, or sleep. Mobile searches were more private, often related to sex…
Intermediate
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Fred Muench, Jeremy Vanderlan
Sunday, March 10
I would like to host a meetup of software developers, engineers and other who are interested in hacking healthcare.……
Intermediate
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Fred Trotter
Illness is complicated. The tsunami of digital information currently available to most patients and caregivers doesn’t always simplify decision making, but can often make it worse. Further, the new role of patients as h…
Intermediate
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John Nosta, Joseph Gattuso
The future of medicine is in your pocket. Show up for an hour and find out just how big this mHealth revolution is going to be! We'll talk about apps that transform heart beats into music, turn boring breathing exercises…
Beginner
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Daniel Kraft, Priya Agrawal, Sandeep Sood
Does your smart phone keep you on track with a fitness, healthy eating or weight loss program? What apps and social media tools do you love? Come chat with the editors of SELF magazine - including Editor-In-Chief Lucy Da…
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Lucy Danziger
The future of telepresence sits at a hybrid intersection of robotics, consumer electronics, medical devices, and even aerospace and housewares -- and the primary driver behind this explosion is design. Unexamined individ…
Advanced
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Michael Meyer
What if the biologic differences between men and women determined their body weight? Most of the recent rise in US obesity is in men; women have stayed stable. Men's average weight has risen from 180# in 1990 to 196# in …
Advanced
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John La Puma
Can the small stuff scale in health? When many of our largest health care issues are systemic or policy driven, what’s needed to truly transform our ecosystem and drive lasting change? Do health start-ups have what it ta…
Intermediate
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, Aman Bhandari, Charles Saunders, Sue Siegel
DIY Diets are all the rage in the online space…tips once shared between friends are now broadcast to complete strangers online. From the Cabbage soup diet, to the Grapefruit diet, to Juicing and more, it seems anyone can…
Beginner
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Jazmin Correa
A significant part of the population wants to live and feel better. Unfortunately, most of them don't know what better means and, more importantly, don't want to put too much effort into being better. higi creates consu…
Intermediate
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Khan Siddiqui, M.D.
Part of the problem in changing health and fitness habits comes from a lack of information about where you’re going wrong. Did you burn 800 calories in spin class instead of 1,000? Miss your 10,000-step walking target? H…
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Christine Robins
There are three main qualities required to create a successful social network in health: trust, transparency, and meritocracy. The first element, trust, can be created by connecting people with trusted health information…
Advanced
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Ron Gutman
Technology is radically changing our ability to understand food preferences and how what we eat impacts our health. Traditionally, companies have relied on market and clinical research to develop products and come up wit…
Intermediate
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Andrew Rosenthal, Danielle Gould
The current model of drug discovery is broken. Billions of dollars are wasted and it takes far too long to bring a drug to market. Research and development is dependent on the wrong type of models. We need a new way …
Intermediate
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Susan Solomon
Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg’s admission that she works a 9-to-5 schedule ignited a firestorm in the tech world over work/life balance. Mashable founder Pete Cashmore nailed it when he said, “It’s up to both employers an…
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Anne Reeve
With over 1.2 billion health-related searches on Google every month, there’s a high demand for open access to trusted medical information online. Most information available lives on static repositories such as websites o…
Advanced
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Jeff Pollard
Patient sharing of photos and documents in health is broken. To get documents, pictures, and files to doctors, patients are forced to send faxes, mail packages, hand-deliver documents, or even write letters / submit for…
Intermediate
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Michael Nichols
Monday, March 11
CrossFit is the world's fastest growing fitness phenomenon and is well suited for the SXSW festival. This is a great opportunity to meet with crossfitters from all around the world and exchange ideas regarding the busin…
Beginner
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Jeff Mckinney
Digital technology is transforming how we connect and self-soothe our body in amazing ways starting first with the core of our system, the brain. The emergence of brainwave-enabled products that share feedback on your br…
Beginner
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Ariel Garten
Hybrids of sex and technology are flourishing in contemporary culture, from basement workshops where power tools are repurposed as bedroom aids to media genres devoted to robot-human couplings. The mechanical in service …
Intermediate
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Laura G Duncan
The majority of births in many parts of the world occur at home without access to skilled attendants, lifesaving medicines or emergency obstetric care, increasing preventable neonatal and maternal deaths. Nevertheless, m…
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Peter Klatsky
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, David Van Sickle, Lama Nachman, Mark Winter
We all know there are vast amounts of data about our lives - our spending, our browsing, our activity - being collected daily. With the recent explosion in inexpensive sensors and self-tracking apps, we can capture new i…
Advanced
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Jeffrey Holove, Michael V Copeland, Steph Habif, Trae Vassallo
Today's breakthroughs in “Bodytech” include a host of incredible innovations that will transform our bodies, communication, society -- even the human psyche. This provocative duo presentation, sponsored by IEEE, will ad…
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Andy Goodman, Ji-Hye Park
Last year there were more than 36,000 suicides in the U.S., and 90% of them had a diagnosable and treatable psychiatric disorder at the time of their death. The proposed ObamaCare health plan supports increased mental i…
Advanced
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Dharol Tankersley, Sarah Worthy
Tuesday, March 12
Medicine and healthcare are becoming more personalized, shifting away from population-oriented, mass-market approaches that are reactive to tailored strategies and opportunities that are proactive. Linda Avey discusses …
Intermediate
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, Linda Avey
Everyone wants to get healthier. New solutions arrive daily. Yet the challenge isn’t getting people to try new things and start new habits but getting them to stick with them. A new generation of hardware and software s…
Advanced
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, Nadeem Kassam
The year is 2030 and we, the patients of the future, speak to you as parents, children, friends, professionals, and experts in our own care. We have unprecedented access, knowledge, and resources. We will tell you what i…
Intermediate
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Dana Ragouzeos, Meredith Dezutter
So many industries have been turned upside-down and inside-out with new technological innovation. From e-commerce to social media, technology has completely changed the way we live our daily lives. Innovation has changed…
Advanced
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, Steve Krein
STOP THE MADNESS! The Patient Experience is overwhelmed with websites, commercials, brochures, support groups, mobile apps, chachkas, and other information sources - and all with no other point than often just saying... …
Intermediate
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Jerilyn MacLaren-Hall
The aging population is rapidly increasing and they are the highest consumers of healthcare in the US. The elderly face many obstacles to healthy aging including unacceptably high readmission rates; uncontrolled costs of…
Advanced
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Andrey Ostrovsky MD, Francine Hardaway, Katy Fike, Timothy Rowan