4sight Health January 26, 2026
I last attended the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in January 2020, just before COVID locked down the global economy. As many as 20,000 healthcare professionals, including me, converged on San Francisco for this year’s conference. JPM is always a circus. More suits occupy Union Square during conference week than the rest of the year combined.
The biggest difference on the streets between JPM 2020 and 2006 was the ubiquity of self-driving Waymo cars. There were a few test Waymo vehicles during JPM 2020. This year, they were everywhere — clean, quiet white Jaguar sedans running 24/7, offering lower prices than Uber and Lyft for equivalent rides. It’s not hard to imagine driverless ride-share vehicles in greater San Francisco entirely replacing...







