Health monitoring: Making sense of sensors
The market of wearable devices is expected to grow exponentially over the next years, disrupting the whole healthcare industry. So far, lifestyle and fitness trackers with limited accuracy dominate the market. With the rise of integrated solutions, more and more vital sign monitors for medical purposes with sophisticated sensor set-ups to provide robust and reliable measurements are entering the market.
Date | 30 Nov 2016 |
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Location | Centre for Global Dialogue Rüschlikon, Zurich, Switzerland Click to open Google Maps |
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Summaries
Watch some of the expert insights at the conference in the video above.
At the event, we heard how fitness data is analysed to make sense of it all and turn the wealth of data into valuable and actionable insights. We discussed product and customer service solutions and explored how the data can be shared with medical and other stakeholders in a common ecosystem. And we also considered the data security requirements of such digital environments.
Since wearable devices generate completely new datasets, insurers are already seeking to capture data from fitness devices to encourage good behaviour; to act as a value-added service to policy holders; to help underwriting and claims management and to use the data within health insurance models. Yet, it is not just insurers who are interested in fitness data. This is also becoming a way for healthcare providers to reduce costs or corporations to increase health awareness among its employees.
About the topic
Watch the video to discover what the next generation of medical wearable devices will bring. We already know that devices and platofrms will become more directly health focused, able to capture blood sugar levels or interpret vital signs to anticipate a cardiac event.
With the rise of integrated solutions, more and more vital sign monitors for medical purposes with sophisticated sensor set-ups to provide robust and reliable measurements are entering the market. We are probably not many years from implanted smart health devices – at which point the stakes for insurers will be all the higher.
Presentations
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
09:00 |
Registration and welcome coffee |
09:30 |
Welcome and introduction |
09:40 |
Internet of medical things: The future of networked biosensors |
10:10 |
Wearables and advanced analytics in lifestyle change |
10:40 |
Leveraging health data to build personal resilience and sustainable high performance |
11:10 |
Coffee break |
11:40 |
Monitoring and diagnosis: Wearable sensors in cardiac care |
12:10 |
Panel discussion on data security and privacy
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12:45 |
Lunch |
14:00 |
Interactive breakout sessions Tracking heart health and emergency with wearable devices [email protected]: CGM technology, IoT connectivity, and the drive to insight delivery in diabetes care, andManaging diabetes in the digital age: Integrated self-management app Download |
14.45 |
Break |
14:55 |
Interactive breakout sessions (repeated) |
15:40 |
Coffee break |
16:00 |
Engaging consumers in health and wellness: The shift from episodic to everyday |
16:30 |
Smart health: A new longitudinal source of health data & facial analytics |
17:00 |
The future athlete |
17:30 |
Closing remarks |
17:40 |
Cocktail |
19:30 |
Join us at Biovotion for an apero and to see the latest in physiological monitoring. A shuttle bus will be leaving at 19:00 from the front desk to Biovotion in Zurich. |
Speakers

Francis Blumberg
Head Life & Health Continental Europe
Europe, Middle East & Africa

Christoph Nabholz
Head Life & Behaviour R&D
Swiss Re Institute

Stefan Weiss
Global Data Protection Officer
Legal & Compliance

Stephan Bachofen
VP Software
Biovotion

Simon Bourne
CEO
my mhealth limited

Scott Drawer
Head of Sky Performance Hub
Team Sky

Vishal Gondal
Founder and CEO
GOQii Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Nathaniel Heintzman
Director of Data Partnerships
Dexcom

Russ Johannesson
Chief Operating Officer
Sharecare

Walter Karlen
Assistant Professor
Department for Health Sciences and Technology, and Head Mobile Health Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich

Tim Hin Wai Lui
Co-Founder
Heartisans

Tero Myllymäki
Head of Physiology Research
Firstbeat Technologies

S. Jay Olshansky
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
Lapetus Solutions, and Professor, School of Public Health, University of Illinois

Jon Otterstatter
President & Chief Strategy Officer, CEO
Preventice Solutions Group

Reto Schegg
CEO
Healthbank

Dan Zelezinski
Founder and Managing Director
Peak Health