Fortune December 4, 2019
In a world of wearable trackers, at-home DNA testing kits, and pioneering advances in gene therapy, it can be tempting to fall into digital delirium.
But there’s one big problem: A fundamental lack of trust between patients and the U.S. health care system, especially when it comes to the use (and ultimate benefits) of health data collection, said multiple medical leaders during a wide-ranging dinner conversation with Fortune on Tuesday.
Attendees included Greg Simon, president of former Vice President Joe Biden’s eponymous Biden Cancer Initiative (which suspended operations earlier this year in the midst of the 2020 presidential campaign); Arianna Huffington, CEO of the wellness group Thrive Global and co-chair of Fortune’s Brainstorm Health conference; Kathy Giusti, a cancer...