A Strategic Guide to AI in Healthcare

From Awareness to Implementation
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-37398-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

A Strategic Guide to AI in Healthcare provides a complete strategic architecture for understanding and implementing artificial intelligence across hospitals, health systems, and governments.

While AI is advancing rapidly, most organisations lack the strategic frameworks, organisational readiness, and implementation know-how to adopt it safely and at scale. The book is therefore structured around the adoption journey. Part I builds awareness and technical literacy, sets out the landscape, and explains why so many AI integrations fail. Part II focuses on hospital-level strategy and implementation, with chapters on building the business case, AI literacy and training, running pilots, scaling to enterprise, workforce transformation, and governance and ethics. Part III extends these themes to government and national strategy, covering regulatory navigation, national data infrastructure and interoperability, and cybersecurity. Each of the seventeen chapters combines theory with practitioner case studies (Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, the NHS AI Lab, WannaCry, Synnovis), structured exercises for executive education, and implementation checklists usable directly in board meetings, AI governance councils, and procurement reviews.

A timely and important resource, the book will be essential reading for anyone responsible for the strategic development of hospitals or healthcare systems, and for researchers in this field.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, Professional Reference, and Professional Training

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramachandran, Muthu

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik, Medizinische Werkstoffe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Strategic Foundations - Understanding the Landscape 1. The Healthcare AI Imperative 2. Understanding AI Maturity: Where Does Your Organisation Sit? 3. Trust Infrastructure for Clinical AI 4. Learning from Failure: Why Healthcare AI Projects Go Wrong 5. Data Readiness as a Strategic Foundation 6. AI Technical Challenges and Their Strategic Implications Part II Hospital AI Adoption Strategy 7. The Toothbrush Test: AI Tools for Daily Clinical Practice 8. Building the Business Case for Healthcare AI 9. AI Awareness, Literacy, and Training Strategy 10. The Pilot Approach: Selecting, Running, and Evaluating AI Projects 11. Scaling from Pilot to Enterprise: The Organisational Central Nervous System 12. Workforce Transformation and New Roles 13. AI Governance, Ethics, and Patient Trust Part III Government and National Strategy 14. National AI Healthcare Strategy: Frameworks for Governments  15. Regulatory Strategy: Balancing Innovation with Safety 16. National Data Infrastructure and Interoperability 17. Cybersecurity as Strategic Foundation

Über Autor(innen)

Muthu Ramachandran is Founder and CEO of Forti5 Technologies Limited (UK) and holds a visiting academic appointment at the University of South Africa. His work focuses on clinical AI governance, blockchain trust infrastructure, and digital health strategy. He has advised NHS trusts, UK government departments, and international health agencies on AI adoption, and has authored over ten books and two hundred peer-reviewed publications in software engineering, AI, and digital healthcare.