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Augmented reality and virtual reality can play an "amazing" role in surgery, helping surgeons, patients and residents, says Tristan van Doormaal, a neurosurgeon at UMC Utrecht in the Netherlands.

If personal impact and realistic processes aren't taken into account, technologies can actually be a hindrance, says HIMSS CTIO Steve Wretling.

Salesforce Chief Medical Officer Dr. Joshua Newman describes how Salesforce Health Cloud can help providers aggregate, analyze and make actionable the data providers need to address social determinants of health.

State and regional HIEs have the deep experience necessary to improve interoperability, says John Kansky, president and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange.

DataRobot GM of Healthcare Colleen Greene describes how automating machine learning and artificial intelligence improves the speed and accuracy of predictive models.

Dr. Vinay Vaidya, chief medical information officer at Phoenix Children's Hospital, says it is crucial to keep data at the center of healthcare IT.

For hospitals and health systems to best foster a culture where patient experience is valued, they must include one key component: a positive experience for caregivers, says Sue Murphy, chief experience officer at UChicago Medicine.

Machines and humans work best together, says Etsimo CEO Thomas Grandell, whose platform can help increase patient empathy by freeing up doctors' time, while ensuring patients stay healthier longer.

Taranaki District Health Board CIO Steven Parrish says New Zealand has an "interesting way of procurement" that makes it difficult for vendors.

Dan Bowden, CISO, and Michael Reagin, CIO of Sentara Healthcare, say that as more providers move to the cloud, they are seeing big advances in cloud security.