1st Edition
Hacking Healthcare How AI and the Intelligence Revolution Will Reboot an Ailing System
In this original work, Tom Lawry takes readers on a journey of understanding what we learned from fighting a global pandemic and how to apply these learnings to solve healthcare's other big challenges. This book is about empowering clinicians and consumers alike to take control of what is important to them by harnessing the power of AI and the Intelligent Health Revolution to create a sustainable system that focuses on keeping all citizens healthy while caring for them when they are not.
Chapter 1: We Interrupt this Pandemic to Bring You Some Good News
Chapter 2: The Coming Care Calamity
Chapter 3: The Future of Everything
Chapter 4: Welcome to the Intelligence Revolution
Chapter 5: AI Come of Age – A Primer
Chapter 6: Artificial Intelligence (AI) vs. Natural Human Intelligence (NHI)
Chapter 7: Creating Value Today With AI
Chapter 8: The Patient Will See You Now
Chapter 9: Intelligent Aging is Healthcare’s Moonshot
Chapter 10: Telehealth Comes of Age
Chapter 11: Care Anywhere
Chapter 12: Are Retailers the New Market Makers?
Chapter 13: Health Infonomics – Data Gets its Due
Chapter 14: Genetic Code vs. Zip Code – Social Determinants of Health
Chapter 15: Achieving Health Tequity
Chapter 16: AI-Driven Leadership
Chapter 17: Adopting AI Requires Adapting
Chapter 18: From Aspiration to Execution
Chapter 19: The Role of the Intelligent Cloud
Chapter 20: Intelligent Health Needs Gas and Guardrails
Chapter 21: The Future is Not What it Used to Be
Biography
Tom Lawry is a strategic advisor to health leaders worldwide and is the best-selling author of Hacking Healthcare – How AI and the Intelligence Revolution will Reboot an Ailing System.
In a Harris Poll of more than 3,000 attendees of the 2023 JP Morgan Health Conference, Tom was named as one of the most recognized leaders driving change and engagement in healthcare today.[i]
Tom is the Managing Director of Second Century Technology and a former Microsoft executive where he served as National Director of AI for Health and Life Sciences, Director of Worldwide Health, and Director of Organizational Performance for the company’s first health incubator. Prior to Microsoft, Tom was a Senior Director at GE Healthcare, the founder of two venture-backed healthcare software companies, and a health system executive.
Tom is well-published and a sought-after keynote speaker in the United States, Western Europe, and the Middle East. His work and views have been featured in Forbes, CNET, NEJM, Inside Precision Medicine, and numerous webcasts and podcasts in the health, medical, and business media.
"Tom Lawry reminds us that the health care industry can shift from glacial to warp speed when it needs to. Given the right tools, we can evolve from health systems to systems of health, baked with Responsible Intelligence to do good while embedded with respect, inclusion, and transparency. Health citizens deserve Tom’s vision to emerge."
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn
Health Economist
Author of Health Citizenship: How a virus opened up hearts and minds
"One of the most comprehensive compilations of groundbreaking AI topics that are fundamentally shaping healthcare today. Tom Lawry shines the light on these complex solutions in a simple and consumable manner. A must read for anyone wanting to learn more about how AI is transforming the world of healthcare in this post-pandemic world."Ankur Teredesai Ph.D,
Professor, University of Washington
Founding Director, Center for Data Science
Healthcare AI Entrepreneur
"In a substantive and brilliant follow-up to his prior impactful book AI in Health, Tom takes us on a futuristic journey of just how AI and its escalating panoply of tools can be in synergy with humans and concomitantly the necessary solution to our healthcare conundrum. In Hacking Healthcare, Tom astutely educates us on the myriad of nuances of AI in healthcare with his unique perspective as National Director of AI for Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft.I applaud Tom for this outstanding work as a clarion call for all of us to take part in this "intelligent health revolution". As we face the inevitable possibility of a shorter lifespan for our population, we owe Tom a debt of gratitude for his timely and insightful book that offers what we all very much need for our next generation: hope."
Anthony Chang, MD, MBA, MPH, MS
Founder of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIMed)
Author of Intelligence-Based Medicine
Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer, Children’s Health of Orange County (CHOC)
"This is an exquisitely written one-of-a-kind book. The author masterfully helps bridge the understanding between healthcare administrators and physicians in the complex landscape of healthcare AI"Eric Eskioglu, MD, FAANS
Neurosurgeon
Executive Vice President - Chief Medical & Scientific Officer
Novant Health
"Throughout my medical career focused on effective healthcare, (terrestrially and in Space), I have witnessed the glaring need for timely access to relevant information. In health, as in most fields, the right information at the right time facilitates the right choice and drives the best outcome. AI and its associated advanced computational capabilities are essential to fuel critically needed shifts in healthcare. In this outstanding text, Tom Lawry renders the complex topic of AI comprehensible and impactful to a diverse audience. He moves the conversation beyond the "promise" of AI to describing actual applications and implementations. He also includes discussions of the most important underpinnings of precision health and distributed healthcare by highlighting prediction, prevention, precision intervention and outcomes, all of which will be greatly advanced by appropriate leveraging of AI to generate actionable information.This book is a foundational resource to leaders, innovators and trainees across multiple disciplines. It will join my list of top recommendations to colleagues and required reading for my students going forward."
Aenor J Sawyer, MD, MS
Director, UC Space Health Program
Co-Director, UCSF Center for Advanced 3D+ Technologies Director, UCSF Skeletal Health Service Associate Professor, Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery, UCSF
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the next big thing in healthcare and its future is now. In "Hacking Healthcare," Tom Lawry describes in rich detail the origins of AI, how AI is being used today, and what needs to be done to make AI an essential part of healthcare delivery. Whether you’re an AI novice or an AI pro, you’ll find this book both fascinating and insightful."David C. Rhew, M.D
Global Chief Medical Officer
Microsoft"Following the success of his first book, AI in Health, I predict that Tom Lawry’s new work "Hacking Healthcare" will be another global Best Seller. Lawry not only has a firm grasp of the use and impact of "AI in the health community" but also has a thorough understanding of how AI can be seamlessly integrated in today's Intelligent Health Systems with other technologies to transform health for patients, health consumers and the clinicians.
I love this book and highly recommend it to all members of the Health community from the C-Suite to the boardroom and everywhere in between."
Harry P. Pappas
Founder & CEO
The Intelligent Health Association
