Paulius and I attended our first HLTH conference this past week. We decided to review our experience the day we got back while the experience was still fresh. Check out our conversation!

Topics discussed:

• Overall thoughts

• Doctors at the conference

• Role of physicians vs health tech in the system

• Importance of the health tech community to the overall health infrastructure

• Financial vs operational groups

• Interacting with influencers

• Exploring interactive sessions

• Collaboration amongst similar ideas

• HLTH as a primary care conference

• Primary care as a function vs service vs product

• Memorable companies

• Cash pay healthcare

• Virtual first care

• Health as a services industry vs tech industry

• Barriers and limitations in healthcare tech

• Building a better chassis

• Patient health data

• Stakeholder motivations

• Mobility of individuals and virtual care

• Innovation and policy

• Enthusiasm of startups vs incumbents

• View of conference programming and networking

• HLTH final impressions

• Listing of future conferences

• Widening the scope of our health system understanding

• Connecting with others