Machine Learning Set to Dominate This Year's Healthcare Trends

The winds of healthcare tech are changing -- at least when it comes to trends. It's clear from the recent HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition that mHealth is becoming the norm, while machine learning and AI is creeping its way in as a dominant trend in the industry. It's not just at conferences though; pay attention to news and press releases, and you'll see talk of machine learning and how it's being used to do everything from predicting illness to using healthcare analytics to reduce hospital readmissions. One of the most recent developments comes from a company that's set out to make artificial intelligence "routine, pervasive and actionable" for the entire spectrum of healthcare organizations. In mid-February, healthcare data and analytics company Health Catalyst announced its plans to embed the benefits of next-generation healthcare analytics throughout the healthcare experience.