Eternal Sunshine Of The Digital Mind: Companies Are Racing To Digitize Healthcare. This Week Finland Is Playing A Starring Role by Tomas Kellner

It can be hard to get a good night of sleep in Helsinki in mid-June, where fiery sunsets last nearly till midnight and the bright sun climbs back up into the sky just a few short early morning hours later. But in a way, it’s the perfect setting for Jack Page and his colleagues, who are tasked with perfecting apps for machines that put people to sleep.
To be sure, Page, who works for GE Healthcare’s anesthesia business, isn’t taking any of his own medicine to catch some rest after a full day. (Like the locals, he relies on heavy hotel blinds to keep the light out at night.) But this week he flew to the Finnish capital from his home in Madison, Wisconsin, for HIMSS  & Health 2.0 Europe, a conference focusing on how data, software, artificial intelligence
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