Table Of Content“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, inclu-
sion, 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 funda-
mentally 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, PhD
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 syn-
ergy 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 health-
care 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 com-
plex topic of AI comprehensible and impactful to a diverse audience. He moves the conversa-
tion 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 stu-
dents 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, MD
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 technol-
ogies 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
Hacking Healthcare
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.
Hacking Healthcare
How AI and the Intelligence Revolution
Will Reboot an Ailing System
Tom Lawry
First published 2023
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003286103
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To those who believe health and medicine are
noble causes and strive to make them so.
Contents
Foreword ........................................................................................xiii
Preface and Acknowledgments ..................................................... xvii
About the Author ..........................................................................xxiii
1 We Interrupt This Pandemic to Bring You Some Good News...........1
AI to the Rescue ..........................................................................................3
Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste – Three Things We Learned ............5
Notes ...........................................................................................................7
2 Welcome to the Intelligent Health Revolution .............................9
From Reactive to Proactive .......................................................................12
From “Health Systems” to “Systems of Health” .......................................13
Making Personalized Health Real ............................................................15
Notes .........................................................................................................16
3 The Coming Care Calamity ........................................................17
Healthcare’s Perfect Storm ........................................................................19
A Case of Supply and Demand ................................................................20
The Intelligent Health Revolution to the Rescue ....................................21
Consider This Example ....................................................................21
Notes .........................................................................................................25
4 The Future of Everything ..........................................................27
Opioids ......................................................................................................28
Chronic Disease ........................................................................................28
Mental Health ............................................................................................28
Consumer Unrest ......................................................................................29
Access and Equity .....................................................................................30
The Time for Intelligent Health Systems Is Now ....................................30
Notes .........................................................................................................31
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