Every year, the HIMSS Conference and Exhibition acts as a barometer for the health IT industry, reflecting the most promising trends and hottest buzzwords capturing the attention of regulators, developers, providers, and consultants. In 2015, “big data analytics” had just hit the scene as the must-have initiative for healthcare organizations. In 2016, data collection started to morph into data usage, and “population health management” became the term du jour. This year in Orlando, the excitement centered on the next phase of analytics evolution – and some would say human evolution – which is the promise of real, personalized, and meaningful artificial intelligence.
