Priceline founder: The world's next Facebooks will be healthcare companies

Internet entrepreneur and TedMed chairman Jay Walker says the next tech billionaires will be created in the areas of health and wellness.

Jay Walker made his fortune in the world of high tech with internet plays such as Priceline.com, which he founded in 1998 and took public a year later, but the man once dubbed "An Edison of the New Age" by Forbes magazine sees the next big things coming from healthcare.

"What happened in the data processing world is coming to medicine," he told an audience of health care executives in New York this week. "There's no question that the Facebooks of tomorrow are going to be in healthcare."

TEDMED, American Heart Assn.

News Well, Cardiovascular, Innovation, mHealth (Mobile Health)

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