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Is there a crisis in global healthcare? Spiralling costs, aging populations and lack of treatments have all added to that general feeling. But are there technological solutions?

Is there a crisis in global healthcare? Spiralling costs, aging populations and in some cases failing treatments have all added to that general feeling. But are there technological solutions? Ed Butler is at the Future in Review conference in California where he discusses this with Dr Leroy Hood who heads up the Institute for Systems Biology, Larry Smarr a computer scientist who is making computer-aided study of his own body, Samir Damani founder of MD Revolution and Bill Hearl Founder of Immunomic Therapeutics Inc.

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