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 road map, 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 How to use various AI technologies to go beyond precision medicine Delivering patient care using the IoT and ambient computing with AI How AI can help reduce waste in healthcare AI strategy and identifying high-priority AI applications

About the Author
Kerrie Holley is focused on advancing UnitedHealth Group (UHG) in the adoption of emerging technologies - including machine learning, graph databases, deep learning, natural language processing, IoT, virtual reality, genomics, blockchain, and virtual assistants - with a heavy focus on Artificial Intelligence. Kerrie leads an engineering team committed to applying and incubating emerging technologies to make the health care system work better and help people live healthier lives. Dr. Siupo (pronounced Soba) Becker joined Optum/UnitedHealthcare in 2016, focusing on population health management and data analysis focusing on application to improving health care and quality outcomes. She has since been named as Vice President of Health Care Strategies within UnitedHealthcare and drives nationwide health care initiatives that impact the quality and control of health care costs.


Book Information
ISBN 9781492063155
Author Kerrie Holley
Format Paperback
Page Count 250
Imprint O'Reilly Media
Publisher O'Reilly Media