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Patient engagement, artificial intelligence, telemedicine, virtual reality, and more trends dominated the provider headlines.

By 2018, 8 percent of health systems' acquisition volume will be made up of digital health startups, up from 1 percent in 2014, according to a report from Accenture, which made projections based on an analysis of 1,500 healthcare provider acquisitions between 2006 and 2015.