Shift for Inventures – Gamechanging Health

Shift by Alberta Innovates

As a part of a special Shift series on Inventures 2022, we're presenting an episode for each of the seven content tracks featured at this year's event.
This episode focuses on the track Gamechanging Health and features an interview with Julie Xu, Senior Product Manager at DrugBank. DrugBank is the world’s first intelligent and comprehensive drug knowledge platform. With the help of artificial intelligence, their expert team authors, verifies, and structures all of the latest biomedical information so that it can be used to its fullest potential.

Gamechanging Health

Leaps in medical science mean people enjoy longer, healthier lives and someone born today will likely live to 150 years. Health professionals, support services and policy makers are rejecting orthodoxy to reimagine and transform lifelong care networks.

New solutions are forging the creation of a more affordable, accessible and higher-quality healthcare system. Technologies that put the person at the centre of the solution are radically transforming how healthcare is designed, delivered and received.
Join the innovators who are transforming the global healthcare space as they explore the latest breakthroughs in the Gamechanging Health track at Inventures 2022.
Bio
Julie Xu, Senior Product Manager, DrugBank
Julie Xu is an experienced product manager, specializing in healthcare technology startups and scaleups. Her passion for modernizing healthcare through technology led her to a Bioengineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as multiple disruptive companies in the EMR, population health, value-based care, insurance, and pharmaceutical industries across North America.

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