{"product_id":"a-giant-leap-how-ai-is-transforming-healthcare-and-what-that-means-for-our-future-hardcover","title":"A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Wachter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Evenhanded and insightful.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An accessible, often fascinating primer.... Essential, illuminating reading.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Digital Doctor\u003c\/i\u003e comes an engaging, clear-eyed, and ultimately hopeful examination of healthcare's efforts to embrace generative artificial intelligence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Giant Leap\u003c\/i\u003e, physician and thought leader Robert Wachter navigates between hype and skepticism to make a compelling case for AI's power to transform healthcare. He argues that, in a system buckling under the weight of bureaucratic pressures, soaring costs, and clinician burnout, AI doesn't need to be perfect--it only needs to be better. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on extensive research and more than 100 interviews with pioneers across medicine, technology, policy, and business, Wachter shows how AI is already entering hospitals and clinics to draft notes, field patient questions, recommend treatments, interpret images, and guide surgeries. He unflinchingly confronts risks like hallucinations, biases, and misinformation, while revealing how AI can now match, and sometimes surpass, physicians in areas ranging from diagnosis to empathy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut this isn't simply a technology story. It's about the human choices that will determine whether AI becomes healthcare's salvation or another source of harm and frustration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlending clinical insight, vivid storytelling, and journalistic precision, \u003ci\u003e A Giant Leap\u003c\/i\u003e offers an indispensable roadmap for healthcare leaders, clinicians, and patients. It is a vibrant and timely account of how AI is changing what it means to care--and be cared for--in this age of astonishing technology.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Wachter\u003c\/b\u003e is chair of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he is also the Holly Smith Distinguished Professor in Science and Medicine and holds the Benioff Endowed Chair in Hospital Medicine. He has appeared more than a dozen times on \u003ci\u003eModern Healthcare \u003c\/i\u003emagazine's list of the fifty most influential physician-executives in the US and was number one on the list in 2015. An elected mem­ber of the prestigious National Academy of Medicine, he coined the term \"hospitalist\" and is considered the father of the hospitalist field, the fastest-growing specialty in modern medicine. He is the author of five books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age\u003c\/i\u003e. He is married to author and journalist Katie Hafner; they live in San Francisco with their miniature poodle, Newman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.05 x 9.13 x 6.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 03, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51964777398573,"sku":"9798217044245","price":30.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/a-giant-leap-how-ai-is-transforming-healthcare-and-what-that-means-for-our-future-hardcover-5247993.webp?v=1775471227","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/a-giant-leap-how-ai-is-transforming-healthcare-and-what-that-means-for-our-future-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}