Have you heard? Cognitive analytics is coming to healthcare (no kidding)

Want to read up on how artificial intelligence and its technological kin are soon to re-shape healthcare, including imaging, as we’ve known it? Look anywhere. You’ll find yet another article on the topic.

That said, Forbes contributor Bernard Marr has put together a quick and worthwhile roundup of stuff that’s already out there or soon to be, helpfully organizing technologies by their use in diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care.

“Industry analysts IDC predict that 30 percent of providers will use cognitive analytics with patient data by 2018,” he writes in his intro section. “It’s all starting to happen, and the implications are exciting.”

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Dave P. has worked in journalism, marketing and public relations for more than 30 years, frequently concentrating on hospitals, healthcare technology and Catholic communications. He has also specialized in fundraising communications, ghostwriting for CEOs of local, national and global charities, nonprofits and foundations.

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