NextMed Health Or ‘When Burning Man Meets Health Care At The Beach,’ Just Weeks Away

The XMed conference, now NextMed Health, returns to the Hotel del Coronado with packed programming. Health care innovators will join leaders from industry, governments, organizations and academia to discuss the future of health care.

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This year’s March health and medtech conference calendar is sheer madness with many travel destinations to choose from. But if Southern California’s sunshine, venue by the beach and presentations led by world-class innovators are a draw, Daniel Kraft’s NextMed Health conference could be a slam dunk.

The rebranded NextMed Health event, formerly known as Exponential Medicine, founded by Kraft, a physician-scientist and innovator, returns to San...

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