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How to unleash the enormous power of global healthcare data

Medical records clerk Elena Lara works in the medical records department at Clinica Sierra Vista's East Bakersfield Community Health Center in Bakersfield, California October 20, 2009.

By 2020 there will be more digitised healthcare data than we can currently store Image: REUTERS/Phil McCarten

Vanessa Candeias
Senior Director, The Hepatitis Fund
Emmanuel Akpakwu
Project Lead, Value in Healthcare, World Economic Forum Geneva
Stefan Larsson
Senior advisor, Boston Consulting Group
Gabriel Seidman
Project Leader (New York), Boston Consulting Group
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