Forbes Healthcare Summit Focuses on the Future of Data

Forbes is hosting its annual healthcare summit this Thursday at Lincoln Center. The theme of this year’s gathering is “Smart Data Transforming Lives.”

Data collection and analysis are becoming an important part of the medical profession. Smartphones, fitness trackers, and other products have morphed into valuable hubs of information regarding the human body.

The sheer amount of information available is staggering so it can be difficult to understand how to properly harness these facts and figures.

The speakers Forbes selected will discuss how this information is altering patient care, opening up possibilities for new treatments, as well as supporting the effort to save money.

Notable presentations will include roundtable conversations on who actually owns your health data, as well as a lecture on how artificial intelligence can become an important tool for health insurers.

We’ll have the five biggest takeaways from the summit posted this weekend. You can view the rest of the speakers’ list here and you can read some of the highlights of the 2013 healthcare summit here.