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.

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Date	30 Nov 2016
Location	Centre for Global Dialogue Rüschlikon, Zurich, Switzerland Click to open Google Maps

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Summaries

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Watch some of the expert insights at the conference in the video above. Click here to see the full event summaries.

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

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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 Francis Blumberg, Head Strategy & Client Services, Swiss Re
09:40	Internet of medical things: The future of networked biosensors Walter Karlen, Assistant Professor, Department for Health Sciences and Technology, and Head Mobile Health Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich
10:10	Wearables and advanced analytics in lifestyle change Tero Myllymäki, Head of Physiology Research, Firstbeat Technologies
10:40	Leveraging health data to build personal resilience and sustainable high performance Dan Zelezinski, Founder and Managing Director, Peak Health
11:10	Coffee break
11:40	Monitoring and diagnosis: Wearable sensors in cardiac care Jon P. Otterstatter, President & Chief Strategy Officer, CEO, Preventice Solutions Group
12:10	Panel discussion on data security and privacy Moderated by Christoph Nabholz, Head R&D Life&Health, Swiss Re Stephan Bachofen, VP Software, Biovotion Reto Schegg, CEO, healthbank Stefan Weiss, Global Data Protection Officer, Swiss Re
12:45	Lunch
14:00	Interactive breakout sessions Tracking heart health and emergency with wearable devices Tim Hin Wai Lui, Co-Founder, Heartisans Integrating wearables, gamification, big data & karma to impact healthy behaviour Vishal Gondal, CEO and Founder, GOQii Data@Dexcom: CGM technology, IoT connectivity, and the drive to insight delivery in diabetes care, andManaging diabetes in the digital age: Integrated self-management app Nathaniel Heintzman, Senior Manager of Data Partnerships, Dexcom Simon Bourne, CEO, my mhealth Download Implantable biosensor for long-term continous monitoring of body chemistry Frederic Gaume, SVP Business Operations, Profusa
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 Russ Johannesson, Chief Operating Officer, Sharecare
16:30	Smart health: A new longitudinal source of health data & facial analytics S. Jay Olshansky, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, Lapetus Solutions, and Professor, School of Public Health, University of Illinois
17:00	The future athlete Scott Drawer, Head of Sky Performance Hub, Team Sky
17:30	Closing remarks Francis Blumberg, Head Strategy & Client Services, Swiss Re
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.

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