The 21 chapters
AI in Healthcare: How technology is transforming the future of human care
Chapter 1
The Two Patients
Abraham Verghese's "iPatient": the flesh-and-blood patient versus the patient of data and pixels on the screen.
Chapter 2
The Collapse of the Human Cockpit
The "Medical Singularity": Chuck Yeager and the sound barrier as a metaphor for information volume outgrowing human capacity.
Chapter 3
Neither Fear Nor Miracle
How to judge an AI by what it does, not by its black box; "preceptor" machine learning versus "immersion" deep learning.
Chapter 4
The Jedi Archive
The electronic health record as the institution's living memory: data as uranium, not oil.
Chapter 5
The Digital Titanic: The Tower of Babel and the Cost of Silence
Lack of interoperability (HL7 FHIR) as the Tower of Babel; vendor lock-in as the "Hotel California".
Chapter 6
The Diagnosis Behind the Pixel
AI in radiology; a real case: Chinese automated reporting technology adopted by Unimed Serra Gaúcha.
Chapter 7
The Sound of Silence
Predictive medicine: detecting sepsis and deterioration before the Code Blue; Florence Nightingale as the "Lady of Data".
Chapter 8
The Assault on the Consultation
"Ambient listening" giving eye contact back to the doctor.
Chapter 9
The Origami of Life and the Nobel Prize for Precision
AlphaFold (2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) and pharmacogenomics; "N-of-1" personalized medicine.
Chapter 10
It's Not About Artificial Intelligence
A manifesto chapter: the problem is system and time design, not technology; operating room and bed management.
Chapter 11
Supply Chain 4.0: The Efficiency of Silence
Hospital logistics and surgical implants and materials as part of patient safety, not just operations.
Chapter 12
When Care Doesn't Talk to the Cashier
RCM (Revenue Cycle Management), claim denials and algorithmic auditing of billing.
Chapter 13
The Hospital Without Walls
Telemedicine, Hospital at Home and continuous remote monitoring.
Chapter 14
Digital Game of Thrones
Algorithmic bias and inequality in training data; governance (the "Night's Watch") and explainability (XAI).
Chapter 15
Algorithm Has No Medical License
Legal accountability: who answers when AI errs, the physician, the hospital or the vendor; a parallel with the Nuremberg Trials.
Chapter 16
The Enigma Moment of Modern Healthcare
Cybersecurity and the cloud: WannaCry (NHS, 2017), Stuxnet, the Vastaamo clinic breach (Finland, 2020).
Chapter 17
The Elevator Operator Syndrome
Adoption and cultural change: why trust in the physician "champion" matters more than the algorithm; the Stanislav Petrov case (1983).
Chapter 18
Power to the Edge
Chapter 19
Innovation That Doesn't Pay Is a Hobby
ROI and TVO of AI in healthcare; the IBM Watson Health case as a warning.
Chapter 20
88 Miles Per Hour
A synthesis using "Back to the Future": AI returns the physician to the role of healer.
Chapter 21
Dr. House in Wonderland
The speculative scenario "Hospital 2035", with the book's closing images illustrating each scene (robotic surgery, digital twin, hospital at home).