Mt Sinai Hospital is using this AI software to take on heart disease

Improving healthcare is a critical application for big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). Think of all that available patient information--from medical records, health monitoring devices, drug trials, genetics databases--there is no dearth of data. What is often lacking is a way to aggregate that trove of information and sort through it in a way that makes it useful. If that can be accomplished, patient outcomes could be improved. Given the incentives insurance companies have to keep people healthy (i.e.