Kerrie L. Holley - AI-First Healthcare: AI Applications in the Business and Clinical Management of Health

by Kerrie L. Holley and Siupo Becker, M.D.

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The number of books describing artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and the full constellation of AI technologies could fill a library. Coupled with the ever-growing list of articles, videos, and blogs, there is no lack of content. Clinicians, computer scientists, technologists, physicians, philosophers, and journalists each tackle different AI issues and challenges.

However, we couldnt find a book that discussed AI from a medical doctor and a technologists paired perspectives. This is a book that tracks the journey of a physician and a technologist working together, discussing AIs opportunity while explaining AI for the consumption of a clinician, an IT worker, a user, an executive, or a business stakeholder. Our goal is for you to understand the possibilities for improvements in healthcare supercharged by artificial intelligence.

While discussing this vast potential, we strove to maintain the awe of AI while grounding the reader in the reality of AI today. We hope that will provide you with confidence that you understand the myth versus the reality. More importantly, this first chapter seeks to familiarize you with the language of AIwhat is a model, an algorithm, a neural network, and morewithout your needing to brush up on linear algebra or computer science.

describes digital transformation and AI, and the utility of AI for digital transformation.

Several opportunities exist for using AI to reduce the amount of waste in healthcare and to reduce medical errors, as addressed in provides a road map for how organizations realize AIs benefits not just for a single instance but at scale.

The state of healthcare is top of mind because it touches most aspects of our lives. The COVID-19 pandemic exposes the slow train wreck of dumb systems frustrating doctors, provider systems, and patients. There is no silver bullet, no quick fix, no one-size-fits-all solution, but the potential to transform healthcare with AI is now possible. We hope this book provides a blueprint for organizations in their journey to leverage AI to make healthcare better for everyone.