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‘Flyover Tech’ Is All the Rage at the 2019 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Investment Conference

Written by Admin | Mar 4, 2019 4:11:41 PM

Via Observer

"On Monday, the 37th Annual JP Morgan Healthcare Investment Conference kicks off in San Francisco—a week-long orgy of PowerPoint decks, spreadsheets and geeked-out cocktail parties that draws tens of thousands of digital health entrepreneurs, execs from health care, biotech and Big Pharma, as well as investors from across the globe. But don’t let all of their wonky banter about the ACA and the FDA fool you into thinking this is just an opportunity for scientists, doctors and health policy experts to nerd out; health care venture capital firms raised a record $9.1 billion in 2017, and according to a study commissioned by Forbes, health care startups are on pace to raise more this past year than in 2012 and 2013 combined."

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