Three events in January 2016 did a terrific job of capturing the essence of wireless technology in healthcare today, putting the expectations, innovations, and problems in the limelight. In glitzy Las Vegas, more than 150,000 people flocked to CES (formerly the Consumer Electronics Show) and the colocated Digital Health Summit. An equally engaged crowd of 1,000+ health information technology (IT) and healthcare technology management (HTM) professionals gathered in Cleveland for the IHE North American Connectathon.