SAN FRANCISCO — This year's edition of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS; Washington) scientific sessions led with the opening plenary talk full of forward-looking speculations, including from a speaker who painted a picture of the future of medicine in which data would flow unimpeded from the patient to the cloud and back to the patient. Indeed, each of the speakers at the opening plenary spoke of the many ways that big data would one day transform medicine, but what was missing was a discussion of the analytical tools that will be necessary to convert the deluge of data into something more meaningful than a ceaseless barrage of bits and bytes. Read More
