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MobileSmith CEO Randy Tomlin says mobile technology allows the patient to be engaged, to "clear the red dots" on their phones to be prepared for surgery.

Cisco Systems is taking on the challenge of linking the enormous amount of data generated by EMRs as well as consumer and enterprise devices in the same clinical space, says Brendan Lovelock, health practice lead at Cisco.

Startup Medial Earlysign is helping hospitals turn data into action for particular high-need use cases, according to company CEO Ori Geva.

A digital behavioral health app can interrupt the downward spiral that leads 400 physicians each year to take their own lives, claims Meru Health Vice President Emily Hines. Add link here.

Jay Spence, vice president of healthcare solutions at Kaufman Hall's software division, says providers need a now, near and far paradigm to link strategy to a financial plan.

Tushar Mehrotra, senior vice president of analytics at Optum, says that with healthcare at a turning point when it comes to using data analytics, AI is no longer just a "nice to have" competency.

With telemedicine evolving, efforts are underway to provide medical care to refugees in camps using a cloud-based electronic health record built on blockchain, says Brian de Francesca, CEO of Ver2 Digital Medicine.

AI scientist Rohit Ghosh, a founding member of Qure.ai, discusses using artificial intelligence and machine learning to advance radiology and examples of success stories.

Looking to move healthcare systems out of the last century, the software giant is focusing on areas such as AI, population health, public cloud, precision medicine and virtual services, says Microsoft Chief Medical Officer Simon Kos.

Buyers of technology such as hospitals have power so their demands for more secure products will be heard by manufacturers, says Parham Eftekhari, executive director of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology.