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Health leaders are jetting to Las Vegas this weekend for a meeting they say is crucial for clinching new deals and cooking up new startups — all while mingling with TV personalities, social media influencers, musicians and ten thousand other health care professionals on the industry’s flashiest exhibitor floor.
It’s the sixth year of the HLTH conference, which draws high profile names from companies like Verily, Amazon, and 23andMe; venture giants like Kleiner Perkins and Andreessen Horowitz; and hospitals, payers and startups hungry for new partnerships, funding and paying customers. A few hundred more attendees are signed up this year compared to last, and this year, more than others, organizers tell STAT they’ll nudge attendees to think about their impact on “humanity”: that is, how best to improve health care overall, beyond their bottom lines.
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