Southern Health Summit To Explore Opioid Crisis, Technology Advances

The theme of this year’s summit, which will be held Sept. 27 in Atlanta, is “A Connected Future.’’ The topics will include responses to the opioid epidemic, health care technology such as telehealth and health information advances.

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Health Connect South isn’t your typical health care conference.

One of the gathering’s central goals is to foster collaboration among leaders and organizations in the industry. A past example is the alliance between pharmaceutical giant UCB and Georgia Tech, forged through the summit, to create a project to explore the potential of predictive analytics to help treatment decisions for people with epilepsy.

The fifth annual Health Connect South will be held Sept. 27 at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta.