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AI-First Healthcare: AI Applications in the Business and Clinical Management of Health 1st Edition

by Kerrie Holley (Author), Siupo Becker M.D. (Author)
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AI is poised to transform every aspect of healthcare, including the way we manage personal health, from customer experience and clinical care to healthcare cost reductions. This practical book is one of the first to describe present and future use cases where AI can help solve pernicious healthcare problems.

Kerrie Holley and Siupo Becker provide guidance to help informatics and healthcare leadership create AI strategy and implementation plans for healthcare. With this book, business stakeholders and practitioners will be able to build knowledge, a roadmap, and the confidence to support AI in their organizations―without getting into the weeds of algorithms or open source frameworks.

Cowritten by an AI technologist and a medical doctor who leverages AI to solve healthcare’s most difficult challenges, this book covers:

  • The myths and realities of AI, now and in the future
  • Human-centered AI: what it is and how to make it possible
  • Using various AI technologies to go beyond precision medicine
  • How to deliver patient care using the IoT and ambient computing with AI
  • How AI can help reduce waste in healthcare
  • AI strategy and how to identify high-priority AI application

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healthcare, medicine, AI, artificial intelligence

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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 couldn’t find a book that discussed AI from a medical doctor and a technologist’s paired perspectives. This is a book that tracks the journey of a physician and a technologist working together, discussing AI’s 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 Chapter 1 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 AI—what is a model, an algorithm, a neural network, and more—without your needing to brush up on linear algebra or computer science.

Chapter 2 integrates human-centered design, with providers and technologists working together to build smart systems to ensure that AI is used to do good. Chapter 3 helps the reader see how combining AI with sensing and monitoring, given the growth of intelligent objects, affords unparalleled opportunity for accelerating personalized medicine. Chapter 4 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 Chapter 5. Chapter 6 describes several AI solutions that, when realized, materially affect the quadruple aim of healthcare. Last, Chapter 7 provides a road map for how organizations realize AI’s 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 recent 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.

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About the Author

Kerrie Holley is a former IBM Fellow and joined Optum as their first Technology Fellow focused on advancing healthcare with technology. He holds a number of technology patents and is author of two previous books.

Dr. Siupo Becker's clinical background is in internal medicine and infectious diseases. She practiced for over 14 years and is now a senior healthcare executive. Her experience includes providing top Fortune 50 companies with innovative approaches to their healthcare needs. Her skill sets include work in population health management, case management, client retention and growth, and technology solutions and digital health innovation as well as product development.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (May 25, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 219 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1492063150
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1492063155
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.75 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Kerrie joined Google Cloud in 2021 and focused on strategy, architecture, and design in healthcare.

In 2016 United Health Group (UHG), Optum, invited Kerrie to join as their first Technology Fellow and Senior Vice President focused on advancing and applying several technologies: artificial intelligence, deep learning, natural language processing, graph databases, IoT, genomics, and ambient computing.

Kerrie spent the bulk of his career at IBM where he was an IBM Fellow, Master Inventor, and now IBM Fellow Emeritus. His last assignment with IBM Research focused on scalable services and cognitive computing. He was IBM’s first African American Distinguished Engineer. He is fond of appearing on ABC News and a TED talk to discuss IBM’s Watson the day after its historic debut on Jeopardy!

He holds several technology patents and is the author of three books: “Is Your Company Ready for Cloud” and “100 SOA Questions: Asked and Answered.” His third book was published in 2021, “AI First Healthcare” with co-author Dr. Siupo Becker, MD.

Prior to Optum, Kerrie worked on maturing an analytics portfolio focused using machine learning and streaming analytics as a CTO with Cisco.

He received his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from DePaul University in Chicago; a Juris Doctor Degree and an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters. I

In 2023, the National Academy of Engineering elected Kerrie as a member, one of the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.

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melo-d
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent insights for clinicians and leaders in healthcare for understanding and applying AI
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2022
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In a very insightful book, Holley and Becker, describe the role of artificial intelligence in health care (clinician's actions) and healthcare (i.e. systems). I loved the useful and non technical description the authors made between artificial intelligence and machine learning. This book is written as stated for healthcare leaders not software engineers or data scientists. Although technical practitioners may find many of the art of what's possible scenarios useful on how to re-imagine how they build systems.

Several chapters provided some gems of insights:

Myths and Realities of AI
Provides an overview and AI origin story with a heavy focus on myths and realities of AI. This was useful given the many dystopia and utopia views on AI to have some grounding on the actual state of AI. I loved the conversation on black boxes in AI technology myths.

Human-Centered AI
The description of AI Centaur Health was fascinating to see why AI and clinician working together will bring superior outcomes. This chapter helped me understand explainable AI, AI ethics issues and why human centered design is essential to build systems which help versus hinder clinicians.

Monitoring + AI = Rx for Personal Health
The story of Bethanie was fascinating explaining how active monitoring using AI is a prescription for improved personal health. Through this story I gained an understanding of the possibilities.

Emerging Applications in Healthcare using AI
Several user scenarios for building applications and services were overviewed in this chapter.
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Sharon
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Healthcare Technical and Clinical book collaboration
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2021
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This is a great Technical and Clinical collaboration, illuminating many healthcare AI applications to explore. It is great how the authors combined applications that may seem disparate at first into cohesive and effective healthcare processes. As more large companies expand into healthcare along with healthcare systems' expansion into AI, I'm looking forward to more advances along what is outlined in this book.
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Anton
1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written and repetitive
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2022
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As a data scientist working in healthcare, I was hoping for the advertised description of "present and future use cases where AI can help" my field. That book was a huge letdown.

Judging from the size of the book, one wonders if the first draft wasn't under 100 pages and the editors suggested the authors puff it up to 200. The book is ripe with vacuous sentences and paragraphs that could be summed up in one or two lines. Repetitions are a dime a dozen, chapter 3 for instance being plump with dozens of variations on the simple sentence: "New devices allow to collect data on patients and AI can use that data to improve the patient's healthcare." Numerous graphs occupying 1/3rd of the page are meaningless (see figure 1-6 which is literally just an arrow going from a text box "weak AI" to a box "strong AI," nothing else to see here). The nail in the coffin is the unintelligible use of titles and section titles: chapter 5 reads "An Uncomfortable Truth" (good luck figuring out what this is about) while chapter 2 "Human-Centered AI" has the following sections: "Toward Human-Centered AI," "Human-Centered AI," "Human-Centric Approach"...

If you're looking for clear information on the state of AI in healthcare, look elsewhere.
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Robert eskridge
5.0 out of 5 stars The king of ai
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2024
This book goes into detail about ai from. The beginning to end I learned from this man
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