To avoid the “trends trap” of heightening the health tech disconnect in the wake of innovation, we must consider how best to proceed in investing and building new technologies that enable long-term transformation of care delivery, not just this year’s trends.

Each year we see a flood of listicle-style articles predicting how hot-ticket health IT trends will transform the industry. This year, analysts expect to see telehealth continue to mature and specialize, growth for remote patient monitoring with wearables and IoT devices, and expanded AI/ML-enabled use cases for provider efficiency and personalized medicine.