- Lloyd Price
The Digital Health Hype Cycle 2017

Digital Health Hype Cycles - 2018, 2019
2018
https://www.healthcare.digital/single-post/2018/02/20/The-Digital-Health-Hype-Cycle-2018
2019
https://www.healthcare.digital/single-post/2019/01/12/The-Digital-Health-Hype-Cycle-2019
What is a Hype Cycle?
A hype cycle is a branded graphical presentation developed and used by the American research, advisory and information technology firm Gartner, for representing the maturity, adoption and social application of specific technologies. The hype cycle provides a graphical and conceptual presentation of the maturity of emerging technologies through five phases.
How do Hype Cycle's work?
Each Hype Cycle drills down into the five key phases of a technology's life cycle.
Innovation Trigger: A potential technology breakthrough kicks things off. Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Often no usable products exist and commercial viability is unproven.
Peak of Inflated Expectations: Early publicity produces a number of success stories — often accompanied by scores of failures. Some companies take action; many do not.
Trough of Disillusionment: Interest wanes as experiments and implementations fail to deliver. Producers of the technology shake out or fail. Investments continue only if the surviving providers improve their products to the satisfaction of early adopters.
Slope of Enlightenment: More instances of how the technology can benefit the enterprise start to crystallize and become more widely understood. Second- and third-generation products appear from technology providers. More enterprises fund pilots; conservative companies remain cautious.
Plateau of Productivity: Mainstream adoption starts to take off. Criteria for assessing provider viability are more clearly defined. The technology's broad market applicability and relevance are clearly paying off.
Using Gartner’s hype cycle model I have created a digital health infographic to share where I believe various technologies are on the adoption curve.
(My image is in no way affiliated with Gartner, their model is purely for illustration.)
The Digital Health Hype Cycle 2017
Innovation / Technology Trigger
Blockchain
HL7 FHIR
Amazon and Alexa
Apple and Facial Recognition
Neural Networks
Drones and UAV's
4D Printing
Deep Reinforcement Learning
Peak of Exaggerated Expectations
Artifical Intelligence
TeleHealth
Machine Learning
IOT
Connected Home
ChatBots and Virutal Assistants
Trough of Disillusionment
Fitness Trackers
Quantified Self
Big Data
Personal Medical Records
Google Glass
Microsoft Health Vault
Nike Fuel Band
Oculus Rift
Path of Enlightenment
Health Apps
Virtual Reality
Augmented Reality
Wearable Technology
Plateau of Productivity
Sleep Tracking
Fertility Tracking
Mental Health and CBT

Digital Health Hype Cycles - 2018, 2019
2018
https://www.healthcare.digital/single-post/2018/02/20/The-Digital-Health-Hype-Cycle-2018
2019
https://www.healthcare.digital/single-post/2019/01/12/The-Digital-Health-Hype-Cycle-2019
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