Artificial Intelligence: Arterys AI has not had a bad year yet. Between breakthrough technologies and soaring funding rounds, there was no shortage of strong candidates to choose from in 2017. Ambra Health CEO Morris Panner, JD, gave the nod to Arterys. The 10-year-old San Francisco, California, company both started and ended 2017 in style. In January, it received a first-of-its-kind FDA approval for its cloud-based technology, which applies AI and deep learning to medical imaging analysis.

It's been a big year in healthcare technology. Healthcare Analytics News reached out to experts across our 8 coverage areas to determine which companies, people, and projects made the biggest waves. The winners of 2017 ushered in advances that have turned heads, resulted in measurable improvements, and given reason to believe that this high-speed sector is not built on hype alone. Big Data: Montefiore Medical Center Numbers can save lives. The traditional relational database in place at Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in Bronx, New York, has been dredged out and filled in with the center's innovative semantic data lake project, to plumb the depths of predictive analytics.