CNBC January 18, 2025
Key Points
– Thousands of health-care executives descended on JPMorgan’s annual health-care conference in San Francisco this week.
– The conference took place a month after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot in New York City.
– Artificial intelligence, president-elect Donald Trump and weight loss drugs were popular topics of discussion.
San Francisco, famed for its abundance of hoodie-clad tech workers, was overrun by thousands of executives in suits this week for JPMorgan‘s annual health-care conference.
Leaders from major health systems, venture capital firms and companies around the globe clustered in hotel lobbies to talk business and strategy for 2025. The sunny skies were a welcome reprieve from the downpours of years past, but other absences were harder to...