Serial Entrepreneurs Behind Money20/20 and Shoptalk Secure $5M to launch HLTH, a Groundbreaking New Healthcare Event

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With 50+ industry leaders already confirmed to speak, HLTH is set to bring together senior leaders from payers, providers, employers, technology, pharma and government for first time.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Jonathan Weiner and Anil Aggarwal, founders of the world’s most important fintech (Money20/20) and commerce (Shoptalk) events and Venture Partners at Oak HC/FT, today announced the launch of HLTH, the first-of-its-kind event covering innovation in healthcare that is driving substantial reduction in costs and dramatic increase in quality. HLTH also announced that it has raised $5 million in venture capital funding to accelerate the development of the large-scale, industry-leading event. HLTH will be held on May 6-9, 2018 at the ARIA Las Vegas. More than 2,000 attendees are expected at the inaugural event.

The funding was led by Primary Venture Partners and Launch Capital along with other healthcare leaders and influencers from across the industry.

HLTH brings together all key industry stakeholders for the first time at one event, including established payers, providers, employers, pharma services, disruptive startups, prolific investors, representatives from government, analysts and media. It covers the technologies and trends that are fundamentally reshaping healthcare and provides an unmatched platform to learn, collaborate and evolve. The event is designed to serve as a catalyst for the development of the healthcare industry during a period of profound change.

The four-day event will feature more than 300 speakers, with more than 60 already confirmed, including startups that have raised over $3 billion to disrupt healthcare.

Confirmed speakers include:

Henry Albrecht, CEO, Limeade
Rob E. Andrews, CEO, Health Transformation Alliance
Tim Barry, Co-Founder and CEO, VillageMD
Paul Black, CEO, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions
Jonathan Bush, CEO, athenahealth
Robert Cohen, President, Appriss Health, Appriss Inc.
Giovanni Colella, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Castlight
Amir Dan Rubin, CEO, Optum360, Optum
Gaspard de Dreuzy, Co-Founder and President, Pager
Jay Desai, Co-Founder and CEO, PatientPing
Francis deSouza, President and CEO, Illumina
Ali Diab, Co-Founder and CEO, Collective Health
John P. Driscoll, CEO, CareCentrix
Helmy Eltoukhy, Co-Founder and CEO, Guardant Health, Inc.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania
Lori Evans Bernstein, MPH, Co-Founder and CEO, HealthReveal
Rushika Fernandopulle, M.D., MPP, Co-Founder and CEO, Iora Health
Senator William Frist, M.D., Partner and Chairman of Cressey & Co.’s Distinguished Executives Council
Vivek Garipalli, Co-Founder and CEO, Clover Health
Alexi Gharib Nazem, M.D., MBA, Co-Founder and CEO, Nomad Health
Arun Gupta, CEO, Quartet
Jennifer Hanson, Head of Associate Experience, Fidelity Investments
Andrew Hayek, CEO of OptumHealth and Surgical Care Affiliates, Optum
David Holmberg, President and CEO, Highmark Health
Patrick J. Kennedy, Former United States Representative, Rhode Island; Co-Founder, One Mind, and Founder, Kennedy Forum
Oliver Kharraz, Founder and CEO, ZocDoc
Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures
Chris Klomp, CEO, Collective Medical Technologies
Noah Knauf, Partner, Kleiner Perkins
Andrew Kress, CEO, HealthVerity
Annie Lamont, Managing Partner, Oak HC/FT
Shawn E. Leavitt, SVP, Total Rewards, Comcast Corporation
Tom X Lee, Founder and CEO, One Medical
Mohamad Mahkzoumi, General Partner, NEA
Brian Marcotte, President and CEO, National Business Group on Health
Kieran Murphy, CEO, GE Healthcare Life Sciences
Ryan Oakes, Health and Human Services Managing Director, Accenture
Brian Otis, CTO, Verily Life Sciences
Gabriel Otte, Co-Founder and CEO, Freenome
Dawn Owens, President, TripleTree
Trevor Price, Founder and CEO, Oxeon Partners
James A. Rice Ph.D., Managing Director, Governance and Leadership, Gallagher Integrated
Dr. Jeff Rideout, President and CEO, Integrated Heart Association (IHA)
Clay Ritchey, CEO, Evariant
Paul Roscoe, CEO, Docent Health
Katherine Ryder, Founder and CEO, Maven
Ravi Sachdev, Partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
Eugene Sayan, Founder, President and CEO, Softheon
Bob Sheehy, CEO, Bright Health
Steve Shulman, Managing Partner, Shulman Ventures
Rajeev Singh, CEO, Accolade
Brad Smith, Co-Founder and CEO, Aspire Health
Robin Y. Smith, CEO, Orig3n
Glenn Steele MD, PhD, Chairman, xG Health Solutions; Former CEO, Geisinger Health System
Ryan Stewart, Managing Director, Head of HC:Tech/Services, LEERINK Partners
Dr. Gregory Stock, Co-Director, Harris Center for Precision Wellness, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Praveen Thadani, Head of Medicare Innovation, Humana
Robin Thurston, CEO, Helix
Stephanie Tilenius, Founder and CEO, Vida Health
Peter H.W. van der Goes, Co-head of M&A Consumer Retail & Healthcare Group, Global Head of Healthcare Information Technology & Digital Health Practice, Goldman Sachs
Paris Wallace, CEO, Ovia Health

“With a complex and broad ecosystem, healthcare leaders and influencers--just like the system itself--exist and collaborate largely in silos,” said Jonathan Weiner, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HLTH. “Until the introduction of HLTH, there has not been a single venue that enables leaders from across the ecosystem to come together to discuss and enable a dramatically different future, including material improvements in outcomes and meaningful reductions in costs. We’re building HLTH to quickly become a critical part of the healthcare industry that can facilitate real change and innovation, just as we’ve done over the past few years for fintech and commerce.”

HLTH’s preliminary agenda addresses the full range of trends impacting and redefining healthcare including:

Non industry companies entering healthcare
Innovations revolutionizing healthcare
Shifting roles, strategies and business models
Transformation of employer benefits
Personalizing healthcare
Addressing the aging U.S. population
Genomics
Paying for value
Behavioral health
Innovations in pharma
The promise of data to deliver
Administrative modernization
Transformative technology
Trumpcare
A worldview of healthcare

“Creating the ability for leaders from across the industry to come together and discuss healthcare’s current and future states is vital to driving much-needed change,” Weiner said. “There are so many interdependencies in healthcare that require leaders to be on the same page, and getting them in the same room is the first step. We look forward to providing the mechanism for attendees to be introduced to others who can break from the status quo and collectively improve the future of healthcare.”

About HLTH

HLTH is the leading event covering innovation in healthcare that is driving substantial reduction in costs and dramatic increase in quality. It’s an unprecedented, large-scale forum for individuals, companies and policymakers who are reshaping the healthcare industry to learn, collaborate and evolve. The event is unique in bringing together all key industry stakeholders, ranging from established payers, providers, employers, and pharma services to disruptive startups and prolific investors, as well as representatives from government, media and analysts. By helping reshape the dialogue and ecosystem, HLTH serves as a catalyst for the development of the healthcare industry during a period of fundamental change. To learn more, visit www.hlth.co.