How could health care be more like Uber? What could it learn from Airbnb? Sitting in the heart of Silicon Valley, Medicine X would hardly be complete without a panel mentioning such companies. Luckily, Jonathan Bush's Saturday morning keynote embraced the questions and discussed bringing "the network effect" to health care, with a rollicking sense of humor to boot.Bush, founder and CEO of athenahealth, extolled the network as the principle by which supply and demand can be re-calibrated in real time, just like Uber does with auto transport and Airbnb does with temporary housing. Who is looking for what?

Cancer is like a computer virus and can be'solved' by cracking the code, according to Microsoft. The computer software company says its researchers are using artificial intelligence in a new healthcare initiative to target cancerous cells and eliminate the disease. One of the projects within this new healthcare enterprise involves utilizing machine learning and natural language processing to help lead researchers sift through all the research data available and come up with a treatment plan for individual cancer patients. IBM is working on something similar using a program called Watson Oncology, which analyzes patient health info against research data. Other Microsoft healthcare initiatives involve computer vision in radiology to note the progress of tumors over time and a project which Microsoft refers to as its "moonshot" aims to program biology like we program computers using code.