Partners in Digital Health

Transforming Illness to Wellness: AI, Sensors, and Care on Demand Sarah Bell, RN, MSN, MHA Chief Clinical Officer, OutcomesAI Thomas Osborne, MD, FAIM Chief Medical Officer, Microsoft Federal Healthcare is generating more continuous, real-time data than ever through sensors, wearable devices, remote patient monitoring and connected care platforms. The opportunity is significant, but collecting dat...

DeSci at the AI Inflection Point Speakers tackle questions others avoid: Did Web3 fail—and what must Web4 do differently? Can AI-optimized code change how decentralized systems are built? Did venture capital undermine sustainable models for decentralized science? What role will personal knowledge graphs play? Where is technology genuinely improving governance? As AI advances, are traditional compu...

Opportunities and Risks of Technology Convergence in Precision Health Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes, MD, EMBA, FAPA, FACHE University of Miami, Herbert Business School, Miami, Florida, USA Institute SEI Carlos D. Bustamante, PhD University of Oklahoma Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) Evelyne Bischof, MD, PhD Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences Sheba Longevit...

Unlocking Virtual Care: Is Blockchain the Missing Piece? Data security, regulatory compliance, cost of IT infrastructure, cross border consultations, and interoperability are just some of the challenges telemedicine faces today. Find out how blockchain technology can help solve many of the pressing challenges, telemedicine faces today.

Reclaiming Healthcare: How DAOs and Decentralized Credentials are Cutting Out the Middleman Dr. Leah Houston Founder and CEO, HPEC The healthcare system is expensive, inefficient and frustrating due to unnecessary third parties and friction filled manual processes that get between patients and their doctors. Through decentralized identityby and credentialing we can create a distributed network of...

The Last Mile: Why 90% of Biomedical AI Research is Stuck Stephen Dennis CTO, Softhread Dr. Bob Rogers Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, BeeKeeperAI Over 90% of all biomedical AI research is stalled due to its inability to access real world protected health information to complete the required clinical validation and valuation prior to its deployment. With AI forecasted to improve patient o...

What Elements of Blockchain Tech Can Healthcare Benefit from TODAY Without Committing to Decentralization Bart Cant - CTO, Tydei.io John Hatchell - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Tydei.io Speakers discuss: The strategy for utilizing DAML for the purpose of progressive decentralization in enterprise Converging how TradFi was brought on chain to innovate healthcare payments Future strategie...

Open DLT for Patient Privacy Protection in the Age of Healthcare Consumerism Maria Palombini Director, Healthcare & LIfe Science Global Practice Lead, IEEE SA Sachin Shetty Associate Director , Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC), Old Dominion University, and Executive Director of the Center for Secure and Intelligent Critical Systems Daniel Harrell, PhD Research Associat...

Ajaz S. Hussain Strategic Advisor, Bright Path Laboratories, and BHTY Editor Michael Dershem CEO, Apierion Jim Nasr CEO, Acoer, and BHTY Editor John Riley III Chief of Emerging Tech, IMPACTIFI • Mohan Venkataraman Principal Consultant, Block10.ai We gathered the authors of BHTY’s “ 2026 Healthcare Predictions: AI, Blockchain, and the Rise of Decentralized Innovation ,” for a video and podcast conv...

Safe AI for Healthcare Jim Nasr CEO, Acoer Jelani Clarke, PhD Executive Lead at DeSci World, and Sales & Marketing Head at AminoChain Owais Durrani. MD Memorial Hermann Health System The Coalition for Decentralized Healthcare and Life Sciences (CDHLS) brought together three pioneers at the intersection of medicine and decentralized technology for a candid conversation about what safe AI means...

From Innovation to Evidence: Publish What You've Proven Paul Barach, PhD Principal, J. Bara Innovation; Chief Medical Officer, Pegwin, and THMT Associate Editor-in-Chief Sandeep Bhat, MSE Former Senior Leader, Digital Engagement, Global Clinical Operations, GSK; Principal, Visualized Ventures, and THMT Editor Liam William C. B. Harding, PhD Professor, Trine University, NSF Reviewer, Medtronic Dist...

Medical Device Cybersecurity Standards: Raising the Bar for Patient Safety Naomi Schwartz - Vice President, Regulatory Strategy, Medcrypt Elizabeth Baker, PhD - Professor of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University, and THMT Academic & Research Integrity Oversight Maria Palombini - Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences Global Practice Lead, IEEE Standards Association As healt...

Publishing Where It Matters: A Candid Conversation Paul Barach, MD, MPH THMT Associate Editor; Thomas Jefferson University, Principal at J. Bara Innovation, and Chief Medical Officer, Pegwin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7906-698X Dr. Suhail Chughtai, FRCS, FFLM Clinical Director of Orthopaedics & Trauma, M L Professionals, London, UK, and AI Division Head, United Kingdom Digital Health & Ca...

The Real Economics of Value Based Care Erik Johnson Senior Vice President and National Practice Lead, Value Based Care, Optum Lyle Berkowitz, MD Founder and Chairman, KeyCare and Editor-in-Chief, THMT Is value based care truly aligning incentives — or redistributing financial risk across payers, providers, and patients in ways that compress margins and shift burden? Is telehealth a costsaving leve...

Many organizations talk about the power of data but too few really understand the full potential. Utilizing a strategic framework that redefines the roles of collaboration and innovation, see how one organization built competitive differentiators by expanding upon the concept of a data analytics platform to create a data operating system and beyond enterprise analytics to facilitating an ecosystem...

The 30% Problem: Solving Pharmaceutical Waste with Blockchain With up to 30% of donated pharmaceutical aid products being diverted, stolen or going to waste in this session we will learn how blockchain technology is addressing some of the biggest trust challenges in the global supply chain. Supply chain issues may prevent people that are in greatest need of life-saving medicines from being treated...

Learn the latest developments, solutions and forward-looking approaches with blockchain technology for healthcare. How do panelists view healthcare delivery systems changing through blockchain-powered technology? What solutions are they spearheading along with new models of collaborations with which they are involved? The panel will highlight how blockchain is leveraged to transform health systems...

How Blockchain Elevates Health Solutions and Services Today and in the Future Kyle Culver Director, Emerging Technologies, Humana, and Co-Founder of the Synaptic Alliance The healthcare industry is beginning to see real value created from blockchain powered solutions. The presentation spotlights what value and impact is being created for early adopters. The speaker will share informed insights for...

The Decentralized Hospital: Breaking the Traditional Healthcare Model Dr. Sandeep Pulim Until recently, acute care technological innovations were centered on improvements in procedural interventions or critical care. Accelerated by the pandemic, there has been a shift and developing interest in bringing acute-level care into the home. As a result, more tech-enabled improvements are supporting dece...

The Interoperability Blueprint: Building the Rails for Nationwide Data Jim Markwith | Managing Partner, Markwith Law Dr. Christophe E. Jackson | Clinical Design Engineer, Gideon The goal of achieving nationwide patient access is getting closer to reality with the establishment of nationwide electronic healthcare record networks, and with the emergence of TEFCA. Interoperability and privacy standar...

Windows to the Mind: How Your Eyes Reveal Your Brain’s Secrets Sai Mattapalli - Vytal.ai , Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia, USA Rohan Kalahasty - Vytal.ai , Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia, USA In the past five years, artificial intelligence has revolutionized healthcare by enabling earlier detection, diagn...

Evaluating LLMs in Healthcare: A ConV2X Panel Discussion Sandeep Reddy, MBBS, MSc, PhD Director, MBA (Healthcare Management), Deakin School of Medicine, and Chairman, Medi-AI Alexandre Lebrun CEO, Nabla Adam Chee, PhD Chief, Smart Health Leadership Centre, Institute of Systems Science National University of Singapore Moderator: Dimitris Kalogeropoulos, PhD CEO, Global Health and Digital Innovation...

What Is DeSci: Challenges and Market Perceptions Authors Jelani Clarke, PhD Executive Lead, DeSci World, and Sales & Marketing Head at AminoChain Filippo Frangioni Product Manager, Novo Nordisk, and Head of Partnerships at Nordic Blockchain Association Jim Nasr CEO, Acoer Themes tackled include: The perception problem: Why does DeSci still sound like sci-fi to most scientists? Funding friction...

How Blockchain Brings Trust to the International Supply Chain and Healthcare Dan Purtell - Director of Innovation, British Standards Association With up to 30% of donated pharmaceutical aid products being diverted, stolen or going to waste in this session we will learn how blockchain technology is addressing some of the biggest trust challenges in the global supply chain. Supply chain issues may p...