PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – At a health care conference devoted to big ideas that could shift the future of care, med-tech startups were front and center. They brought forth a vision of a range of innovative technologies: using gene-editing CRISPR for at-home diagnostics, machine learning for more accurate imaging interpretation, bioelectronics for chronic diseases, virtual reality for surgical training, and liquid biopsy to detect asymptomatic, age-related diseases.