Sensors for brainwaves and biometrics will go mainstream. Tech that cost $40K 5 years ago will be available to anyone who wants a BCI (brain-computer interface) kit at home for less that $100.

Nichol Bradford, Transformative Technology Lab

Health technologies have to transform their enterprise platforms to be “consumer-grade” digital solutions to survive. EMRs, provider sites and payer search tools will have to meet “iPhone” levels of usability.

Raqib Ali Sheikh, Modea

Telehealth solutions will help emergency services correctly identify and route emergency and non-emergency patients during response situations – letting emergency departments focus on the most needy patients.

Robert Le Busque, Verizon Enterprise Solutions

The rise of telemedicine will make physical medical practices obsolete, as general practitioners and psychiatrists move parts of their operations online, and expand access to Healthcare in rural areas.

Jack Cahn, When Millennials Rule

The primary change in Health Tech: Accessibility. Advanced mobile platform capabilities allow users to capture and manage their health all in one place – from comparing rx pharmacy costs to scheduling doctor visits.

Annie Durkin, benefitsContinuum

Major healthcare OEMs including Philips and GE pushing into connected health data platform will help drive adoption of connected medical devices, rivaling earlier plays from Apple, Samsung, Validic and others.

Jonathan Collins, ABI Research

For most healthy patients – the concept of a primary care physician is becoming a thing of the past. Our care is being distributed across a larger network of specialists, schools, care teams and technologies.

Hesky Kutscher, CareDox

With the recent republican nomination, I anticipate a massive increase in demand for neurological and psychiatric therapies in the form of new drugs and devices.

Eric Sugalski, Boston Device Development

Get ready for the Age of Healthcare Consumerism — expect more health technology products that empower patients and make the entire healthcare experience more pleasant and effective for everyone.

Aron Ezra, OfferCraft

As medical providers move to “pay per performance” models, successful tech will focus on increasing a population’s access to health services and generating data-driven reports/analytics on patient health outcomes.

Gaby Loria, Software Advice

Health Tech is rapidly evolving at the speed of technology. People driven solutions, personal health care, disease prevention, and the ability to monitor and engage with patients will continue to revolutionize and democratize healthcare universally.

Ravi Sawhney, RKS Design

Cloud services are opening up large-scale biomedical data analytics to more RDH researchers. I’ve seen 50X increases in cost/performance. The result? Richer research faster and cheaper.

Dr Joseph Sweeney, IBRS

In the next 10 years fitness apps will no longer exist, instead apps will work on developing users’ long term health in order to prevent diseases and chronic pain. The MHealth industry will shift its focus from acute to preventative care.

Zeeshan Hayat, Prizm Media

The future of health tech will focus on personalisation and accessibility. Everyone will have something in the palm of their hands and it will be tailored to their individual needs.

Matt Riemann, ph360

Secondary diagnosis through machine learning. In situations where diagnosis is data heavy there’s a greater probability of humans miss-diagnosing, machine learning will provide a quantitative second opinion.

Jeremy Scott, Loud&Clear

You think of all the industries you can be tapped into on your smartphone, but you’ve got nothing from health. It will be mHealth where consumers will start to see the benefit.

Geoff Rohrsheim, Chamonix

In the UK, the NHS will soon be sharing the health information of millions with Google to try to improve care. The biggest changes coming will be data security, storage, portability and ownership.

Dr Frank Farrelly, Darlinghurst Dental

Physician burnout will hit a critical peak this year. Healthcare organizations are increasingly seeking technology to produce balanced physician schedules, improve operations and reduce staff turnover.

Suvas Vajracharya, Lightning Bolt Solutions

Healthcare technology is approaching the tipping point where the cost benefit ratio will make monitoring medical devices a viable option to have in your home. This will lead to greater trend analysis and predictive analytics.

Michael Sumner, Beech Medical Group

Connected technologies are changing the world of healthcare faster than imaginable, from connected devices to connected physicians and assistants. Be prepared for intense disruption of the status quo.

Felicite Moorman, BuLogics & StratIS

The primary change we see in Health Tech is how patients and doctors communicate with each other using telemedicine tools.

Luka Ivicevic, Penta Bank

We’re going to see Virtual Reality completely revolutionise the Healthcare industry. From immersive exposure therapy to surgical training (which has an 80% retention rate) the possibilities will be endless.

Daniel Colaianni, VRbound

I see an increase in the use of Virtual Reality and 3D Printing in healthcare. Both new technologies have found uses recently and people are finding more innovative ways to apply these technologies to healthcare.

Dr Tim Lynch, Psychsoftpc