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Alex Aliper, Insilico Medicine's president, says that longevity progress is already being made, but that regulators need to classify aging as a disease and track its biomarkers to enable more therapeutic advances.

Dr. Scott Parazynski, founder and CEO of OnwardAir, says that innovations created to treat astronauts in the extreme environment of space have the potential to improve remote care and aging research on Earth.

With analytics and omnichannel strategies like hyper-personalized fotonovelas, providers are leapfrogging over social determinants of health barriers to earn trust, improve patient engagement and close care gaps, says Bob Farrell, CEO of mPulse.

Tom Gillette, CIO of non-profit Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, says artificial intelligence tools raise health equity and support more personalized care in South Florida and Dade County where 60% of the residents speak Spanish.

Surprisingly, researchers found no correlation between department closures and negative outcomes for patients driving greater distances, says Martin Gaynor, professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University.

The Health AI Partnership is offering technical assistance to help FQHCs and community hospitals bridge the digital divide, says Dr. Mark Sendak, population health & data science lead at the Duke Institute for Health Innovation.

Follow-up appointments, transitional care when there’s the risk of readmission, benefit patients and can be done by telehealth, says Dr. Matthew Thompson, an ER physician and the CEO and cofounder of Telescope Health.

Peninsula Health is participating in the statewide HIE project to address data integration challenges, shares Dr Shyaman Menon, executive director of Medical Services.

Ida Tin, founder and CEO of Femtech Assembly, cites a McKinsey report that found poor healthcare for women costs $1 trillion per year worldwide and she says investing in women's health is essential to bolstering global economies and infrastructure.

The system makes it hard for primary care doctors to collect payment so that 30-40% of their time is spent on administrative tasks, says Mark Newman, founder and CEO of Nomi Health.

Rather than making cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, the government is simply rolling back funding to pre-pandemic norms, says Dr. Don Rucker, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth, who led the ONC during the first Trump administration.

Anil Soni, CEO of the WHO Foundation, discusses the organization's $3.6 million fundraising campaign, with dollar-for-dollar matching, to support the Global Measles and Rubella Laboratory Network in its mission to control both diseases.