Industry leaders gather at the HLTH 2021 conference.

CONFERENCE: HLTH 2021

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Top health industry leaders joined with government officials, policy experts, politicians, tech industry influencers, and even a few celebrities in Boston last October for the HLTH 2021 conference. The four-day event brought together senior leaders from all areas to attempt to address some of the health care industry’s most pressing issues, and to seize opportunities to shape the future of health. Through a mixture of one-on-one meetings, group roundtables, sponsor exhibits, and more than 100 informative sessions, attendees learned about the exciting disruptors reshaping the entire spectrum of health. 

CNBC reporter Bertha Coombs (left) leads a panel on applying Amazon's culture of innovation to health care with (pictured from left) Heather MacDougall, VP Worldwide of Workplace Health and Safety at Amazon, Dr. Kristen Lloyd Helton, director of Amazon Care, and Vin Gupta, MD, MPA, senior principal scientist and chief medical officer of COVID-19 response at Amazon.

HLTH was committed to keeping everyone attending HLTH as safe as possible. In addition to being fully vaccinated, attendees needed to test negative for COVID-19 either 72 hours prior to arriving or they could test on-site before picking up their badge. More than 3,700 tests were administered onsite.

Attendees filled the track rooms to hear from 200-plus speakers in more than 15 tracks.

Thousands of attendees filled the general session ballroom to hear from keynote speakers.

Guests were interviewed in the podcast lounge for the HLTH Matters podcast. Episodes will be released in 2022.

Attendees network and take a break in the social media lounge in the exhibit hall.