Digital Transformation in Healthcare – 2025 Health IT Predictions

As we wrap up another year and get ready for 2025 to begin, it is once again time for everyone’s favorite annual tradition of Health IT Predictions! We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on what will happen in the coming year and boy did they deliver. We in fact got so many responses to our prompt this year, that we have had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting. Check out the community’s predictions down below and be sure to follow along as we share more 2025 Health IT Predictions!

Check out our community’s Digital Transformation predictions:

Ed Chekan, MD, FACS, Vice President, Medical Affairs and Professional Education at Asensus Surgical
AI use and regulation must adapt to the evolving healthcare landscape. Care is moving beyond brick-and-mortar institutions, with telehealth advancing from diagnostics to treatment. Telerobotic surgeries now allow surgeons to operate virtually anywhere, and operating rooms have progressed from open surgeries to laparoscopic procedures, leading to digital surgery that enhances precision through advanced visualization and decision support. To meet these demands, AI must power the operating rooms of the future, seamlessly integrating across borders and continents.

Ahzam Afzal, PharmD, Co-Founder and CEO at Puzzle Healthcare
This past year we saw penalties for hospitals and health systems related to patient readmissions decrease significantly. Hospitals and health systems will be well-positioned to continue this trend in 2025, but they need to continue taking effective measures. These include the successful integration of technology tools and collaborations across the healthcare continuum that bring hospitals, long-term care facilities, primary care providers, and home healthcare providers together to increase visibility into the patient’s journey, address gaps in care, particularly care transitions that could lead to hospital readmissions, and make effective care interventions to reduce the chances that a patient’s condition worsens. If the U.S. healthcare system can continue to drive down patient readmissions, patient outcomes will improve, and fewer hospitals will be penalized for high readmission rates at a time when many hospitals are seeking more financial stability.

Vijay Mohan, VP, Industry Solutions and Global Life Sciences Leader at o9 Solutions
Healthcare supply chains are extremely complex, with global networks requiring precise coordination, specialized shipping, regional regulatory compliance, and constant readiness to deliver critical supplies. The stakes are high, as any disruption can directly impact patient care. Technology is enabling massive improvements in healthcare supply chain management. For example, AI-driven forecasting can better predict demand spikes, supply risks, and cold chain issues to avoid shortages that could otherwise put patients at risk.

The adoption of technology across healthcare supply chains allows for real-time visibility, helping to foster collaboration across suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and care providers. It also allows companies to be more agile and responsive, while creating an overall more reliable and collaborative healthcare ecosystem. Healthcare leaders can reinforce resiliency and improve decision-making while building a solid foundation for the delivery of care.

Jeff Fallon, Chairman & CEO at eVideon
The healthcare landscape is in a state of transformation and smart room technology is shaping the future of hospitals. According to the CHIME 2024 Digital Health Most Wired survey, health IT budgets are on the rise, and smart room investments will be part of these expenditures to improve care through automation and personalization. Smart rooms streamline caregiver workflows and enhance care delivery. New, integrated features include digital whiteboards, interactive displays to engage patients, telehealth capabilities for remote care, real-time location systems (RTLS) to track supplies and staff, and patient-centered technologies that enhance communication, boost satisfaction, and alleviate nurses’ workloads. These advancements align with the industry’s focus on tools that create efficient, interactive environments for both patients and providers.

In 2025, healthcare organizations will prioritize solutions that go beyond traditional Electronic Health Record (EHR) offerings. The focus on patient engagement is crucial. Comprehensive smart room technologies improve patient engagement and reduce manual tasks for hospital staff, particularly nurses. By automating tasks like patient education assignments and medication reminders, smart rooms save nurses hours of administrative work each week. Smart room technologies enhance the quality of care and support clinical efficiency, which is vital as healthcare organizations face resource constraints.

Krista Bowman, Managing Director, Head of Healthcare and Life Science at Further
The healthcare IT landscape is evolving, and by 2025, AI, blockchain, and voice technology will converge to transform care delivery. AI-driven personalized medicine will tailor treatments using genetic, environmental, and lifestyle data, improving outcomes and reducing inefficiencies. Blockchain will enable seamless data sharing across providers, driven by CMS interoperability mandates while addressing privacy, security, and data-sharing challenges. Blockchain networks will ensure compliance with privacy protections through a secure, decentralized framework.

This ecosystem will be enhanced by voice-activated agents, streamlining workflows. Providers will use AI-powered agents capable of taking actions, collecting data, and assisting with patient data access, note dictation, and task automation. Together, these technologies will improve care coordination, reduce errors, and optimize outcomes, creating a more personalized, secure, and patient-centered healthcare experience.

Maulik Nanavaty, CEO at Anumana
In 2025, evidence-based AI will become the standard of care in healthcare. Evidence-based AI tools are on the fast track to becoming the standard of care in healthcare. As we look to 2025, we expect to see new AI algorithms entering the market and increasingly integrated into clinical pathways. The influx of FDA-cleared AI algorithms that enhance diagnostics, such as those for ECG data, is uncovering previously hidden insights, enabling earlier detection and intervention for difficult-to-diagnose conditions like heart disease. Recent CMS rulings and expanded reimbursement codes for AI-driven solutions will act as a catalyst for adoption and empower healthcare providers to integrate AI, addressing clear unmet needs while ensuring cost-effective solutions.

Ron Gaboury, CEO at Caregility
In 2025, technological advances in healthcare will continue to accelerate at an unprecedented pace. Providers will bridge the technological divide, embracing innovative methods to treat patients more efficiently and effectively. However, technology will not replace humans; it will be humanized to ensure the crucial connection between patients and providers remains. Adaptability will be the cornerstone of healthcare strategies. To thrive in this fast-changing environment, the strategy will be to not only adapt but embrace change as the new constant. As identity displacement becomes a key challenge, the healthcare sector must prioritize human-centered technology integration to maintain its core values.

Mary Sirois, Managing Director, Clinical Transformation at Nordic Global
Now is the time for healthcare organizations to boldly embrace AI and digital innovation as part of their strategic plans and view the workforce as an essential asset, as opposed to a cost, in achieving transformative care. From a longer-term perspective and to plan for resource needs of the future, organizations must consider the evolving nature of care team collaboration as well as view community health and support organizations as an extension of available services. Technology should be considered an investment and enable each member of the workforce to operate at the “top of their license.” Regardless of their role and position, people should work in ways that only humans have the unique ability to do.

Prioritizing the workforce as a strategic asset with the same emphasis as advancing business goals and addressing current needs while anticipating future challenges and opportunities will be key. AI will take over manual and repetitive tasks, enabling physicians, clinicians, and the healthcare workforce to focus on what truly matters: meaningful patient interactions and human connection in care. Organizations must upskill their workforce and prepare for new ways of working. Building competency in AI literacy, data management and interpretation, and an understanding of how AI tools can augment clinical judgment and operational workflows will be critical.

Future-thinking hospitals, health systems, and clinics will focus on cross-disciplinary collaboration with clinicians, data scientists, and AI specialists to prepare their organizations for the integration of AI. Strategic investment in the workforce will ensure clinicians have the skills needed to leverage technology and complement the clinical expertise needed to deliver the human element of care.

Karen Jones, MPH, RN, CIC, LTC-CIP, FAPIC, Infection Prevention Clinical Program Manager at Wolters Kluwer Health
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) provides a method to precisely identify the genetic makeup of a pathogen, allowing faster and more targeted responses to disease transmission, outbreaks, or unexpected antimicrobial resistance. WGS has been used for infection prevention and control for just over a decade and is becoming more common as cost and processing time to perform WGS decrease. Besides confirming an outbreak, WGS will also rule out a suspected outbreak if isolated specimens are not linked. As outbreak investigations are often time and resource-intensive, implementing WGS will direct IPC teams to raise alerts and step up prevention strategies. IP leaders must understand the importance of including WGS in their programs.

Roland Rott, President and CEO GE HealthCare Imaging at GE HealthCare
In 2025, we will see medical imaging and artificial intelligence (AI), in partnership with clinicians, transform the cancer care landscape — helping medical professionals diagnose cancer earlier and improving patient outcomes. We’ve seen this in action already in breast cancer where AI has shown tremendous promise in screenings, from early detection and risk prediction to reduced callbacks and more efficient workflows for breast imaging providers. We know that finding breast cancer early reduces a woman’s risk of dying from the disease by 25% to 30% or more. New and evolving AI technologies are being used to leverage the power of imaging tools to identify cancer earlier, getting patients into treatment faster and ultimately giving these patients and their families hope for better outcomes and improved quality of life.

Kengo Takishima, President and CEO at Baylor Genetics
As we approach 2025, artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to remain a transformative force in genetic testing and precision medicine, enabling patients and healthcare providers to access insights that were previously unattainable. In today’s healthcare landscape, the genetic testing industry is generating vast amounts of genomic data at both individual and population levels. The key challenge lies in translating this data into actionable clinical insights, particularly in identifying pathogenic variants and mutations that influence medical diagnoses, treatment decisions, and policymaking. AI is emerging as a critical tool to unravel the complexity of the genome more efficiently, paving the way for more personalized patient care.

Moreover, AI holds immense potential to revolutionize the sequencing and reanalysis of genetic data, especially in diagnosing rare diseases. This innovation could spare patients and their families the prolonged uncertainty of a diagnostic odyssey. By accelerating these processes, AI will help shape a future of precision medicine that is predictive, proactive, and precisely aligned with the needs of each patient.

Bhargava Reddy, Chief Business Officer at Qure.ai
Chest X-ray AI will be embraced in 2025 as a cost-effective front-line diagnostic tool. Chest X-rays represent an optimal screening tool due to their minimal invasiveness, rapid results delivery, cost-effectiveness, and wide availability across healthcare settings. This accessibility, combined with AI, creates an unprecedented opportunity to screen patients for multiple abnormalities during routine medical examinations. This can potentially revolutionize early disease detection and improve patient survival rates.

Clay Ritchie, CEO at Verato
As Health systems pursue digital transformation, they rely on many different systems – systems of record such as EHRs, systems of experience such as CRM, and systems of insight such as cloud data platforms to enhance patient care and their ability to acquire and retain patients. To address the increasing demands of healthcare consumerism and deliver exceptional patient experiences, providers must focus on establishing a single source of truth for identity across this complex digital ecosystem. This approach enables personalized interaction, fosters patient loyalty throughout the care journey, and strengthens patient retention.

Bruno Lempernesse, President at MDClone
With technology in the hospital and healthcare ecosystem continually advancing, the health systems that succeed will be those that invest in solutions that enable them to operationalize discovery and innovation across teams and departments. To get it right, health systems need to increase not only the volume of innovation projects they run but also the speed at which these initiatives drive value in cost savings and improved patient outcomes.

Sharat Potharaju, Chief Executive Officer at Uniqode
By 2025, healthcare will become a leader in adopting privacy-first digital technologies, accelerating the shift away from paper-based processes in everything from patient intake to prescription tracking. Privacy-compliant digital systems will enhance not only patient documentation and visitor management but also open up new efficiencies in secure staff communications, compliance tracking, and real-time data-sharing between departments, redefining the operational backbone of healthcare facilities.

Thomas Pollard, Senior Manager Major Account Sales, Healthcare at Brother International Corporation
Standardizing all printers promotes consistency in authentication methods, access controls, and permission settings, enacting a streamlined approach to managing information processed by devices. Fewer devices = fewer models = more control. This control is critical when many variables could challenge healthcare organizations.

Additionally, and perhaps most importantly, limiting model types deployed allows for efficient, effective IT management and support. The absence of a standardized fleet or printing system leads to security vulnerabilities, heightened expenses, and other challenges for healthcare professionals, particularly IT teams.

More recently, tools like artificial intelligence have helped combat these challenges by using predictive analytics to maximize printer fleet efficiencies and support more intelligent workflows. Overall, investing in a standardized printer fleet upfront mitigates risks and promises long-term benefits that enrich user experiences and boost productivity.

Jim Pursley, President at Hinge Health
AI, including Generative AI (GenAI) and computer vision, will continue to personalize care delivery and enable even more effective treatments based on an individual’s health history and needs. We’re excited about AI’s potential disruption in the industry. We saw years ago the need to transition away from wearable sensors to AI-based computer vision to guide people through rehab at home as if a physical therapist were sitting beside them. Other innovators are now harnessing GenAI to detect early chronic disease warning signals and sort through reams of data to monitor and record the quality of care.

We expect more companies to invest heavily in these types of practical applications of AI, which will dramatically improve personalization and convenience for patients. That said, we don’t believe that AI will ever replace human care. Healthcare is inherently human, and AI won’t be able to replicate the empathy human clinicians bring to care.

Thank you so much to everyone who took the time out of their day to submit a prediction to us and thank you to all of you for taking the time to read this article! We could not do this without all of your support. What do you think will happen for Digital Transformation in 2025? Let us know on social media. We’d love to hear from all of you!

Be sure to check out all of Healthcare IT Today’s Digital Transformation content and our other 2025 Health IT Predictions.

As we wrap up another year and get ready for 2025 to begin, it is once again time for everyone’s favorite annual tradition of Health IT Predictions! We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on what will happen in the coming year and boy did they deliver. We in fact got so many responses to our prompt this year, that we have had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting. Check out the community’s predictions down below and be sure to follow along as we share more 2025 Health IT Predictions!

Check out our community’s Digital Transformation predictions:

Ed Chekan, MD, FACS, Vice President, Medical Affairs and Professional Education at Asensus Surgical
AI use and regulation must adapt to the evolving healthcare landscape. Care is moving beyond brick-and-mortar institutions, with telehealth advancing from diagnostics to treatment. Telerobotic surgeries now allow surgeons to operate virtually anywhere, and operating rooms have progressed from open surgeries to laparoscopic procedures, leading to digital surgery that enhances precision through advanced visualization and decision support. To meet these demands, AI must power the operating rooms of the future, seamlessly integrating across borders and continents.

Ahzam Afzal, PharmD, Co-Founder and CEO at Puzzle Healthcare
This past year we saw penalties for hospitals and health systems related to patient readmissions decrease significantly. Hospitals and health systems will be well-positioned to continue this trend in 2025, but they need to continue taking effective measures. These include the successful integration of technology tools and collaborations across the healthcare continuum that bring hospitals, long-term care facilities, primary care providers, and home healthcare providers together to increase visibility into the patient’s journey, address gaps in care, particularly care transitions that could lead to hospital readmissions, and make effective care interventions to reduce the chances that a patient’s condition worsens. If the U.S. healthcare system can continue to drive down patient readmissions, patient outcomes will improve, and fewer hospitals will be penalized for high readmission rates at a time when many hospitals are seeking more financial stability.

Vijay Mohan, VP, Industry Solutions and Global Life Sciences Leader at o9 Solutions
Healthcare supply chains are extremely complex, with global networks requiring precise coordination, specialized shipping, regional regulatory compliance, and constant readiness to deliver critical supplies. The stakes are high, as any disruption can directly impact patient care. Technology is enabling massive improvements in healthcare supply chain management. For example, AI-driven forecasting can better predict demand spikes, supply risks, and cold chain issues to avoid shortages that could otherwise put patients at risk.

The adoption of technology across healthcare supply chains allows for real-time visibility, helping to foster collaboration across suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and care providers. It also allows companies to be more agile and responsive, while creating an overall more reliable and collaborative healthcare ecosystem. Healthcare leaders can reinforce resiliency and improve decision-making while building a solid foundation for the delivery of care.

Jeff Fallon, Chairman & CEO at eVideon
The healthcare landscape is in a state of transformation and smart room technology is shaping the future of hospitals. According to the CHIME 2024 Digital Health Most Wired survey, health IT budgets are on the rise, and smart room investments will be part of these expenditures to improve care through automation and personalization. Smart rooms streamline caregiver workflows and enhance care delivery. New, integrated features include digital whiteboards, interactive displays to engage patients, telehealth capabilities for remote care, real-time location systems (RTLS) to track supplies and staff, and patient-centered technologies that enhance communication, boost satisfaction, and alleviate nurses’ workloads. These advancements align with the industry’s focus on tools that create efficient, interactive environments for both patients and providers.

In 2025, healthcare organizations will prioritize solutions that go beyond traditional Electronic Health Record (EHR) offerings. The focus on patient engagement is crucial. Comprehensive smart room technologies improve patient engagement and reduce manual tasks for hospital staff, particularly nurses. By automating tasks like patient education assignments and medication reminders, smart rooms save nurses hours of administrative work each week. Smart room technologies enhance the quality of care and support clinical efficiency, which is vital as healthcare organizations face resource constraints.

Krista Bowman, Managing Director, Head of Healthcare and Life Science at Further
The healthcare IT landscape is evolving, and by 2025, AI, blockchain, and voice technology will converge to transform care delivery. AI-driven personalized medicine will tailor treatments using genetic, environmental, and lifestyle data, improving outcomes and reducing inefficiencies. Blockchain will enable seamless data sharing across providers, driven by CMS interoperability mandates while addressing privacy, security, and data-sharing challenges. Blockchain networks will ensure compliance with privacy protections through a secure, decentralized framework.

This ecosystem will be enhanced by voice-activated agents, streamlining workflows. Providers will use AI-powered agents capable of taking actions, collecting data, and assisting with patient data access, note dictation, and task automation. Together, these technologies will improve care coordination, reduce errors, and optimize outcomes, creating a more personalized, secure, and patient-centered healthcare experience.

Maulik Nanavaty, CEO at Anumana
In 2025, evidence-based AI will become the standard of care in healthcare. Evidence-based AI tools are on the fast track to becoming the standard of care in healthcare. As we look to 2025, we expect to see new AI algorithms entering the market and increasingly integrated into clinical pathways. The influx of FDA-cleared AI algorithms that enhance diagnostics, such as those for ECG data, is uncovering previously hidden insights, enabling earlier detection and intervention for difficult-to-diagnose conditions like heart disease. Recent CMS rulings and expanded reimbursement codes for AI-driven solutions will act as a catalyst for adoption and empower healthcare providers to integrate AI, addressing clear unmet needs while ensuring cost-effective solutions.

Ron Gaboury, CEO at Caregility
In 2025, technological advances in healthcare will continue to accelerate at an unprecedented pace. Providers will bridge the technological divide, embracing innovative methods to treat patients more efficiently and effectively. However, technology will not replace humans; it will be humanized to ensure the crucial connection between patients and providers remains. Adaptability will be the cornerstone of healthcare strategies. To thrive in this fast-changing environment, the strategy will be to not only adapt but embrace change as the new constant. As identity displacement becomes a key challenge, the healthcare sector must prioritize human-centered technology integration to maintain its core values.

Mary Sirois, Managing Director, Clinical Transformation at Nordic Global
Now is the time for healthcare organizations to boldly embrace AI and digital innovation as part of their strategic plans and view the workforce as an essential asset, as opposed to a cost, in achieving transformative care. From a longer-term perspective and to plan for resource needs of the future, organizations must consider the evolving nature of care team collaboration as well as view community health and support organizations as an extension of available services. Technology should be considered an investment and enable each member of the workforce to operate at the “top of their license.” Regardless of their role and position, people should work in ways that only humans have the unique ability to do.

Prioritizing the workforce as a strategic asset with the same emphasis as advancing business goals and addressing current needs while anticipating future challenges and opportunities will be key. AI will take over manual and repetitive tasks, enabling physicians, clinicians, and the healthcare workforce to focus on what truly matters: meaningful patient interactions and human connection in care. Organizations must upskill their workforce and prepare for new ways of working. Building competency in AI literacy, data management and interpretation, and an understanding of how AI tools can augment clinical judgment and operational workflows will be critical.

Future-thinking hospitals, health systems, and clinics will focus on cross-disciplinary collaboration with clinicians, data scientists, and AI specialists to prepare their organizations for the integration of AI. Strategic investment in the workforce will ensure clinicians have the skills needed to leverage technology and complement the clinical expertise needed to deliver the human element of care.

Karen Jones, MPH, RN, CIC, LTC-CIP, FAPIC, Infection Prevention Clinical Program Manager at Wolters Kluwer Health
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) provides a method to precisely identify the genetic makeup of a pathogen, allowing faster and more targeted responses to disease transmission, outbreaks, or unexpected antimicrobial resistance. WGS has been used for infection prevention and control for just over a decade and is becoming more common as cost and processing time to perform WGS decrease. Besides confirming an outbreak, WGS will also rule out a suspected outbreak if isolated specimens are not linked. As outbreak investigations are often time and resource-intensive, implementing WGS will direct IPC teams to raise alerts and step up prevention strategies. IP leaders must understand the importance of including WGS in their programs.

Roland Rott, President and CEO GE HealthCare Imaging at GE HealthCare
In 2025, we will see medical imaging and artificial intelligence (AI), in partnership with clinicians, transform the cancer care landscape — helping medical professionals diagnose cancer earlier and improving patient outcomes. We’ve seen this in action already in breast cancer where AI has shown tremendous promise in screenings, from early detection and risk prediction to reduced callbacks and more efficient workflows for breast imaging providers. We know that finding breast cancer early reduces a woman’s risk of dying from the disease by 25% to 30% or more. New and evolving AI technologies are being used to leverage the power of imaging tools to identify cancer earlier, getting patients into treatment faster and ultimately giving these patients and their families hope for better outcomes and improved quality of life.

Kengo Takishima, President and CEO at Baylor Genetics
As we approach 2025, artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to remain a transformative force in genetic testing and precision medicine, enabling patients and healthcare providers to access insights that were previously unattainable. In today’s healthcare landscape, the genetic testing industry is generating vast amounts of genomic data at both individual and population levels. The key challenge lies in translating this data into actionable clinical insights, particularly in identifying pathogenic variants and mutations that influence medical diagnoses, treatment decisions, and policymaking. AI is emerging as a critical tool to unravel the complexity of the genome more efficiently, paving the way for more personalized patient care.

Moreover, AI holds immense potential to revolutionize the sequencing and reanalysis of genetic data, especially in diagnosing rare diseases. This innovation could spare patients and their families the prolonged uncertainty of a diagnostic odyssey. By accelerating these processes, AI will help shape a future of precision medicine that is predictive, proactive, and precisely aligned with the needs of each patient.

Bhargava Reddy, Chief Business Officer at Qure.ai
Chest X-ray AI will be embraced in 2025 as a cost-effective front-line diagnostic tool. Chest X-rays represent an optimal screening tool due to their minimal invasiveness, rapid results delivery, cost-effectiveness, and wide availability across healthcare settings. This accessibility, combined with AI, creates an unprecedented opportunity to screen patients for multiple abnormalities during routine medical examinations. This can potentially revolutionize early disease detection and improve patient survival rates.

Clay Ritchie, CEO at Verato
As Health systems pursue digital transformation, they rely on many different systems – systems of record such as EHRs, systems of experience such as CRM, and systems of insight such as cloud data platforms to enhance patient care and their ability to acquire and retain patients. To address the increasing demands of healthcare consumerism and deliver exceptional patient experiences, providers must focus on establishing a single source of truth for identity across this complex digital ecosystem. This approach enables personalized interaction, fosters patient loyalty throughout the care journey, and strengthens patient retention.

Bruno Lempernesse, President at MDClone
With technology in the hospital and healthcare ecosystem continually advancing, the health systems that succeed will be those that invest in solutions that enable them to operationalize discovery and innovation across teams and departments. To get it right, health systems need to increase not only the volume of innovation projects they run but also the speed at which these initiatives drive value in cost savings and improved patient outcomes.

Sharat Potharaju, Chief Executive Officer at Uniqode
By 2025, healthcare will become a leader in adopting privacy-first digital technologies, accelerating the shift away from paper-based processes in everything from patient intake to prescription tracking. Privacy-compliant digital systems will enhance not only patient documentation and visitor management but also open up new efficiencies in secure staff communications, compliance tracking, and real-time data-sharing between departments, redefining the operational backbone of healthcare facilities.

Thomas Pollard, Senior Manager Major Account Sales, Healthcare at Brother International Corporation
Standardizing all printers promotes consistency in authentication methods, access controls, and permission settings, enacting a streamlined approach to managing information processed by devices. Fewer devices = fewer models = more control. This control is critical when many variables could challenge healthcare organizations.

Additionally, and perhaps most importantly, limiting model types deployed allows for efficient, effective IT management and support. The absence of a standardized fleet or printing system leads to security vulnerabilities, heightened expenses, and other challenges for healthcare professionals, particularly IT teams.

More recently, tools like artificial intelligence have helped combat these challenges by using predictive analytics to maximize printer fleet efficiencies and support more intelligent workflows. Overall, investing in a standardized printer fleet upfront mitigates risks and promises long-term benefits that enrich user experiences and boost productivity.

Jim Pursley, President at Hinge Health
AI, including Generative AI (GenAI) and computer vision, will continue to personalize care delivery and enable even more effective treatments based on an individual’s health history and needs. We’re excited about AI’s potential disruption in the industry. We saw years ago the need to transition away from wearable sensors to AI-based computer vision to guide people through rehab at home as if a physical therapist were sitting beside them. Other innovators are now harnessing GenAI to detect early chronic disease warning signals and sort through reams of data to monitor and record the quality of care.

We expect more companies to invest heavily in these types of practical applications of AI, which will dramatically improve personalization and convenience for patients. That said, we don’t believe that AI will ever replace human care. Healthcare is inherently human, and AI won’t be able to replicate the empathy human clinicians bring to care.

Thank you so much to everyone who took the time out of their day to submit a prediction to us and thank you to all of you for taking the time to read this article! We could not do this without all of your support. What do you think will happen for Digital Transformation in 2025? Let us know on social media. We’d love to hear from all of you!

Be sure to check out all of Healthcare IT Today’s Digital Transformation content and our other 2025 Health IT Predictions.