Advanced Introduction to Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (Elgar Advanced Introductions series)

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Providing a comprehensive overview of the current and future uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare, this Advanced Introduction discusses the issues surrounding the implementation, governance, impacts and risks of utilising AI in health organizations

Key Features:

• Advises healthcare executives on how to effectively leverage AI to advance their strategies and plans and support digital transformation
• Discusses AI governance, change management, workforce management and the organization of AI experimentation and implementation
• Analyzes AI technologies in healthcare and their impacts on patient care, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, population health, and healthcare operations
• Provides risk mitigation approaches to address potential AI algorithm problems, liability and regulation


Essential reading for policymakers, clinical executives and consultants in healthcare, this Advanced Introduction explores how to successfully integrate AI into healthcare organizations and will also prove invaluable to students and scholars interested in technological innovations in healthcare.

Tom Davenport, Distinguished Professor, Babson College, Fellow, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and Senior Advisor, Deloitte's AI Practice, John Glaser, Executive in Residence, Harvard Medical School and Lecturer, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, US and Elizabeth Gardner, Independent Journalist