Toby Cosgrove, an executive advisor to the Google Cloud health care team, believes data and artificial intelligence (AI) have the power to advance the health care system. "As you look at health care, we have got a problem and a curse in the fact that we have an explosion in the amount of knowledge there is in health care. For example, there are 5,800 medical journals that are turning out 800,000 articles a year," Cosgrove said in an interview with CNBC. "There's an enormous amount of data and it's a problem for us to keep track of and that's why I think the cloud is going to come in," he explained. "As the data goes to the cloud all the major cloud providers have come to an agreement that they will share unidentified information."

Toby Cosgrove has glimpsed into the future of medicine, and it is decidedly digital. The physician-businessman, who served as president and CEO of the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic for more than a decade before transitioning out of the role at the start of 2018, tells Fortune that artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality technology like Microsoft's HoloLens, and similar advances are critical for keeping pace with the evolution of medicine. "When the Cleveland Clinic was formed almost 100 years ago, the total amount of knowledge in health care doubled every 150 years," Cosgrove told me in March during Fortune's Brainstorm Health conference in Laguna Niguel, Calif. There are now 800,000 journal articles written every year. Every human genome has 3 billion data points in it.

Infrastructure and operations (I&O) are changing. During the next five years, I&O organizations will implement vastly different roles and technologies. I&O leaders will need to identify the skills, technologies and processes required to ensure their organizations' continued relevance. The digital mesh of interconnected people, devices, content and services will create new business and operating models by connecting people, objects, data and services. Speed and uncertainty will increasingly be the norm, while the profound impact of artificial intelligence (AI) will involve high levels of experimentation as organizations learn how to apply it to different business scenarios.