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Douglas Reding, MD, chief medical officer for Ascension Wisconsin and practicing oncologist, talks about Ascension's journey with its precision medicine task force, the need for AI support and the future of AI and machine learning.

John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Paul Cerrato, Contributing Writer, Medscape, Medpage Today, discuss how AI and big data can help make personalized medicine a reality.

The startup's seed funding comes from Lux Capital, former Twitter heads and others. 

The new collaboration will start with using the technology to predict atrial fibrillation. 

Grady Health System's Robin Frady shared her story at the HIMSS Big Data and Healthcare Analytics forum.

The Montreal-based company uses spectral retinal imaging technology and AI to deliver a cheaper alternative to early Alzheimer's disease detection.

The Barcelona-based company recently posted 91.3 percent accuracy in a 1,000-patient study.

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The startup is also working with other pharma companies and plans to expand its relationship with Sanofi.

Proscia makes digital pathology software and AI applications for cancer diagnosis.