Technology

I’ve seen wholesale movement of entire industries to the

cloud, and healthcare’s going to do the same. What we’re going to end up with is a hybrid cloud, where we can run our EHRs, (enterprise resource planning) and all that other stuff in the cloud. But things like ventilators— do you think you really want to run your ventilator control system from some distant location depending upon an internet connection? Probably, you don’t. … CIOs will get out of the business of provisioning storage and compute, and will move the bulk of mission-critical applications to the cloud.”

DR. JOHN HALAMKA President | Mayo Clinic Platform

“The country is going to come to grips with privacy policy. We are long overdue for a national privacy policy that gives the American people the confidence and the trust in this digital era. While we have HIPAA, now these applications are moving from HIPAA- covered entities to noncovered entities.”

ANEESH CHOPRA Former U.S. chief technology officer President of CareJourney

The use of 5G (wireless internet) will be real. The maximum potential of 5G is 10 gigabits per second. The caregivers, the institutions are now believing in 5G, they’re believing in sensors, and the convergence is in continuous monitoring. In the olden days, for diabetes, you would take somebody’s HA1C, or you would take their fasting blood sugar. Now there’s continuous glucose monitors. That means you all the time know your blood sugar.”

DR. SHAFIQ RAB Chief information officer | Rush University System for Health

The incorporation of artifi cial intelligence tools in medicine. There’s already 40 algorithms that have FDA approval or clearance now, and that’s just going to zoom forward. It’s going to cut across most disciplines of medicine— not just radiology, but also pathology, cardiology, psychiatry, ophthalmology.”

DR. ERIC TOPOL Director | Scripps Research Translational Institute

—As told to Jessica Kim Cohen