The idea that data is poised to break down massive barriers in the American healthcare system has been discussed for the better part of a decade. But recent signals from the federal government indicate a more focused intent to drive healthcare organizations toward turning concept into reality.

"Deep learning is a hard thing to conceptualize," said Justin Richie, data science director at digital services consultancy Nerdery. But a number of companies are working on the problem.

Companies breaking new ground in IIoT have a unique opportunity to prevent data siloing from the start to avoid backtracking to patch past bad behavior.

For many organizations, AI remains a mystery not to be trusted in production, thanks to its lack of transparency. But demand, advances, and emerging standards may soon change all that.

Khaled says born-digital companies and those companies who are most mature in their embrace of digital are already well down this path because “they don’t see it as partnering with IT, they just see IT as part of the business.”

“One-day delivery, or less, is becoming the new customer expectation,” said Arpit Jain, vp/cross-functional delivery and capabilities at Nerdery, a digital business transformation consultancy. “While Target’s same-day delivery comes at a price, it won’t be long before the industry expectation is for it to be free.”