Data science and artificial intelligence (AI) are rapidly disrupting many industries. In healthcare, we are just beginning to realize the possible opportunities that will transform service provision in the next decade.

We see a fully data-enabled health system facilitating five critical drivers of health system performance: prediction, prevention, personalization, participation and productivity. The WISH report sets out a path of increasing data-enablement that health systems might follow, with case studies outlining how individual systems have addressed some of the challenges involved.