AI in Healthcare

About the book

There is an invisible frontier that medicine has been trying to cross for decades. It is not the barrier of technology, nor that of capital. It is the barrier of excess: the moment when the volume of information exceeds the human capacity to process it. It was at this invisible frontier that this book was born.

AI in Healthcare is not just another manual on artificial intelligence. It offers no magic formulas, makes no prophecies, and does not waste a single line trying to convince anyone that machines will replace human care. On the contrary: it is a book about what makes us irreplaceable, and about how technology, when well orchestrated, gives healthcare professionals back their scarcest and most sacred asset: time.

Across 21 chapters, André Leite and Vinícius Lain move through the patient record and clinical memory, radiology, predictive medicine, data and interoperability, the supply chain, the revenue cycle, the hospital without walls, algorithmic bias, cybersecurity and medical accountability. Always with the same thesis: AI is the copilot, and command remains human.

Details

A curious fact

The foreword of the book was generated by the AI Claude (Anthropic), at the authors' request, as an experiment. It is signed "André Leite and Vinícius Lain (by Claude)" and described in detail in the foreword itself.

This English edition was translated from the original Portuguese with the assistance of AI (Claude, by Anthropic).