André Leite
Thoracic surgeon
André Leite is a thoracic surgeon. At the helm of Unimed Serra Gaúcha, one of Brazil's major healthcare organizations, he is responsible for an operation of remarkable complexity: the health plan and the medical specialty, the hospital and the surgeon, the physician and the financials, the promise of care and the entire system that sustains it.
From this position, André learned a truth that runs throughout the book: innovation that never reaches the bedside is merely invention, and technology that fails to give time back to healthcare professionals is simply another unnecessary cost. Under his leadership, Unimed Serra Gaúcha has become a national benchmark within the Unimed system, not by accumulating machines, but by orchestrating them in service of those who provide care and those who receive it.
He does not speak of artificial intelligence as some distant possibility, but as a concrete management decision, with a name, a cost, and real consequences.
Articles by André Leite
AI in Medicine
Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Doctors?
Core Concepts
What Is Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare?
Doctors and AI
How Can AI Give Doctors Their Time Back?
Data and Infrastructure
Why Interoperability Is Essential to AI in Healthcare
Ethics and Regulation
Who Is Responsible When Artificial Intelligence Makes a Mistake in Medicine?
Doctors and AI
The Two Patients: Who Are You Really Treating?
Foundations of AI in Healthcare
Medicine's Sound Barrier: When the Volume of Data Exceeds What a Doctor Can Process
Foundations of AI in Healthcare
Neither Miracle Nor Threat: How to Judge a Medical AI by What It Actually Does
Data and Infrastructure
Data Is Not Oil, It Is Uranium: The Electronic Health Record as the Hospital's Living Memory
Data and Infrastructure
Healthcare's Digital Titanic: Why Your Systems Don't Talk to Each Other
AI in Medicine
What Happens When an Algorithm Reads the X-Ray Before the Radiologist
AI in Medicine
The Silence Before Code Blue: How AI Can Predict a Patient's Deterioration
Doctors and AI
Who Stole Eye Contact From the Medical Consultation, and How AI Can Give It Back
Core Concepts
The Origami That Won the Nobel: What AlphaFold Changes for Your Treatment
Healthcare Management
The Manifesto: Healthcare's Problem Was Never the Technology, It Was the Design of the System
Healthcare Management
The Logistics Nobody Sees, but That Decide Whether You Survive Surgery
Healthcare Management
When Care Doesn't Talk to the Cashier: The Invisible Cost of Claim Denials
AI in Medicine
The Hospital Without Walls: When the Hospital Bed Is the Patient's Living Room
Ethics and Regulation
The Game of Thrones of Health Data: Algorithmic Bias Is Inequality Disguised as Science
Ethics and Regulation
Algorithm Has No Medical License: Who Answers When AI Gets It Wrong?
Data and Infrastructure
Healthcare's Enigma Moment: Is Your Hospital Ready for a Cyberattack?
Doctors and AI
The Elevator Operator Syndrome: Why Trust Matters More Than the Algorithm
Healthcare Management
Innovation That Doesn't Pay Is a Hobby: The Lesson of IBM Watson Health's Failure
Foundations of AI in Healthcare
88 Miles Per Hour: AI Doesn't Point to the Future, It Points Back to the Doctor as Healer
Core Concepts
Hospital 2035: A Day in the Life of a Patient in Medicine's (Very Near) Future
Core Concepts