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(SPONSORED) Vik Nagjee, VP and CTO for global healthcare solutions at Pure Storage, offers his perspective on the technology and processes necessary to make data work for you.

As artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and machine learning systems become better than humans at medicine and cost less, it might even become unethical not to replace people.

Hospitals must more effectively gather and analyze their existing data, speakers at the Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum said.

New cancer test requires less DNA than previous versions.

Prof Dame Sally Davies says genomic services should become available to more patients suffering from cancer and rare diseases.

The technologies are enabling early-adopter hospitals to transition from the art of medicine to the science of medicine. 

Prominent healthcare execs are predicting a drastic shift from on-premise IT infrastructure into the cloud.

Healthcare IT News conducted a post-HIMSS17 survey to gauge real implementations of the conference’s big buzzwords. Respondents also revealed their favorite part of this year’s conference. 

Commonwealth Care Alliance and Penn Medicine are already putting Amazon Alexa to work in early-stage projects that promise to reshape the patient experience. 

Epic landed the top spot for Overall Software Suite in the 2017 Best in KLAS: Software and Services report, for the seventh consecutive year. It also earned the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor and Best in KLAS awards in eight other segments.