Data in health care is clearly a big trend at SXSW this year. Panels cover a variety of topics like protecting individuals’ data while leveraging it to better diagnose and treat illnesses, combatting drug addiction, lowering suicide rates and facilitating better relationships with physicians. Here are the top 5 panels for health and medical technology.

Preventing the Cambridge Analytica of Health Data

As health care and the data to support it become increasingly digital, new challenges and safety concerns arise. While digital health data monitoring can help predict or diagnose conditions from web searches, GPS tracking and wearable fitness-tech monitoring, how can tech companies ensure this data is protected? Panelists from Yale University School of Medicine, 2M Research, Verify Life Sciences and The New York Academy of Sciences will discuss the protections needed as we begin to freely share health data with emerging digital health-tech companies.

Friday, March 8
5 – 6 p.m.
JW Marriott
Salon FG

Healthcare’s Digital Disruptors: Hope vs. Hype

Innovation in health care can bring vast improvements to treatment and diagnosis, but at what point does advancement in tech and data become detrimental to the patient? This panel will explore how to optimize health care innovation to increase quality of health care, lower costs and bridge the digital divide — specifically looking at machine learning, predictive analytics and precision medicine.

Saturday, March 9
5 – 6 p.m.
JW Marriott
Salon H

Reimagining the Patient, Doctor Relationship

Panelists from Bright Health, Life By Spot and Oracle will examine how innovation affects the doctor-patient relationship. Many argue new health care tech has led to a “speed dating” relationship between physicians, patients and payers, but Bright Health looks to change that with new technology.

Sunday, March 10
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
JW Marriott
Salon FG

Using Data Analytics to Combat the Opioid Crisis

More than 130 people overdose on opioids every day. Health care providers are now turning to data science and analytics to change the trajectory of this crisis, hoping to reduce the intake of opioids. Panelists from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Colorado Hospital Association, Alteryx and Intermountain Healthcare will provide their perspectives and approaches to using data to fight this epidemic.

Sunday, March 10
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
JW Marriott
Salon FG

Killing Ourselves Faster: The Mental Health Abyss

Panelists from the St David’s Foundation, the American Medical Association, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and Solera Health will discuss how technology can help curb mental illness, why mental illness is on the rise and who is more affected than others. Suicide rates have increased in recent years, partly contributing to the decline in life expectancy in the U.S. over the past two years. How can health care innovation reverse this deadly trend?

Monday, March 11
9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
JW Marriott
Salon 7