Healthcare is about people- the patients receiving care, the people delivering it and those creating ways to support this. Data via predictive analytics is an enabler to supports a healthcare provider or system to achieve operational excellence to help problems thus faced by the people. Doing this well not only delivers patient outcomes but supports preventative and proactive population health management. In this table discussion, we would like to discuss these questions: What is the connection between operational excellence, predictive data analytics and artificial intelligence? What are the driving forces for achieving organizational performance by using artificial intelligence? What are the barriers to achieving organizational performance using artificial intelligence?