Healthcare: AI and Genomics Shape the Future of Medicine at SXSW
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Artificial intelligence and gene sequencing are changing how patients are treated. Analyst Simon Erickson shares some of the greatest opportunities and some of the biggest hurdles to adoption of the latest technology in healthcare.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.0 | It's March 15th and today's sector is health care. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your host, Christine Harjus. |
| 0:12.0 | This episode of Motley Fool Industry Focus |
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| 0:30.9 | I am so excited to welcome to the show today Motley Fool Premium analyst |
| 0:34.8 | Simon Ericsson who is calling in from Austin Texas where he is at South by |
| 0:39.2 | Southwest. Welcome to the show. Hey Christine it's a pleasure to be here. |
| 0:43.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:44.0 | You're very welcome. |
| 0:45.0 | Thank you so much for being here to share with us some of the health care related things that you're |
| 0:50.0 | seeing at South-by. |
| 0:52.0 | To kick us... South-by Southwest is such a huge festival every year. |
| 0:55.0 | It's got some of the most innovative companies and entrepreneurs and health care is a big focus for |
| 0:59.6 | them. |
| 1:00.6 | Yeah, so we've been doing South by interviews all week long on industry focus, but in case you're just coming to the show today for health care addition, |
| 1:09.0 | Simon, can you give a little bit of background? What is this South by Southwest thing we're talking about? |
| 1:14.0 | Sure the South by Southwest festival and often started as kind of a music and film festival |
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