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Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes And Top Executives To Reimagine Healthcare At The Forbes Healthcare Summit

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/08/31/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-and-top-executives-to-reimagine-healthcare-at-the-forbes-healthcare-summit/

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Elizabeth Holmes, youngest self-made female billionaire and the founder and chief executive of diagnostic test upstart Theranos, will be one of dozens of top industry executives that will help me reimagine the healthcare system at our fourth annual Forbes Healthcare Summit, December 2 and 3.

How Big Data is Driving the Consumerization of Health Care

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Startups Vie to Build an Uber for Health Care

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Google Ventures Shifts Focus to Health Care

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Google GOOGL +0.10%’s venture-capital arm is moving strongly into health care and life-sciences startups, mirroring shifts at the Internet giant. More than one-third of the money Google Ventures invested in 2014 went to health care and life-sciences companies, up from 9% each of the prior two years. The venture group plans to continue investing in the area, looking to capitalize on an explosion of health data and new ways to analyze it, said Bill Maris, head of Google Ventures.