The 2025 Health Datapalooza brings together voices from the entire lifecycle of innovation to real-world application, including patients, investors, builders, payors, providers, researchers, and policymakers. Join us to understand the true impact of health care innovations and the billions of new data points that shape our nation’s health care ecosystem.  

Conference Theme

Innovation Unfiltered: Evidence, Value, and the Real-World Journey of Transforming Health Care    

Conference Focus 

This year’s program will seek to explore the following focus areas:

“Why Innovation Matters”

  • Presenting compelling evidence supporting improvements in patient outcomes and affordability  
  • Showcasing fundamental changes in health care delivery and its return on investment (ROI)
  • Exploring policy and regulatory strategies that boost global competitiveness in health care AI innovation

“Why Innovation is Hard”  

  • Identifying the challenges that come with implementing a learning health system approach to validation    
  • Investigating barriers to generating high quality evidence to demonstrate ROI  
  • Analyzing the complex payment and legislative ecosystem that hampers innovation  

“What We Can Do About It”

  • Encouraging cross-sector collaboration to speed up the transition from evidence to practice
  • Promoting transparency and understanding of health care value and cost  
  • Developing innovative and practical learning health system approaches to validate the outcomes and value of innovations 

Meet the 2025 Advisory Committee

Chair

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Committee Member, Presenter

Daniel Yang, M.D.

Vice President of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies - Kaiser Permanente

Daniel Yang, M.D., is vice president of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies for Kaiser Perm... Read Bio

Members

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Tara Bishop, M.D.

Founder and Managing Director - Black Opal Ventures

Dr. Tara Bishop is passionate about improving health and healthcare. Read Bio

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Committee Member

Jen Horonjeff, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO - Savvy Cooperative

Jen Horonjeff, Ph.D., is the Founder & CEO of Savvy Cooperative, a patient-led patient insights organization t... Read Bio

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Committee Member, Member

Genevieve Melton-Meaux, MD, Ph.D.

Professor of Surgery and Health Informatics - University of Minnesota

Genevieve Melton-Meaux is a Professor of Surgery and Health Informatics, Senior Associate Dean of Health Infor... Read Bio

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Lynne Chou O’Keefe, M.B.A.

Founder and Managing Partner - Define Ventures

Lynne Chou O’Keefe is the Founder and Managing Partner of Define Ventures, one of the largest firms focused on... Read Bio

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Committee Member

Abdul Shaikh, Ph.D., M.H.Sc.

Global Leader for Population Health - Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Dr. Abdul Shaikh is the Global Leader for Population Health for Worldwide Public Sector at Amazon Web Services... Read Bio

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Lucas M. Tramontozzi, M.P.H.

Senior Vice President - Innovation Horizons

Lucas Tramontozzi is a senior vice president at Innovation Horizons with over 20 years’ experience in strategi... Read Bio