Dr. Robert Wachter | A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare... | Talks at Google

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Physician and thought leader Dr. Robert Wachter discusses his book "A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future," an engaging, clear-eyed, and ultimately hopeful examination of healthcare’s efforts to embrace generative artificial intelligence. Dr. Wachter shares 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. Get the book here: https://goo.gle/3RdrMwo. Robert Wachter is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He has appeared on Modern Healthcare magazine’s list of the 50 most influential physician-executives in the US more than a dozen times; he was #1 on the list in 2015. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, he coined the term “hospitalist” and is considered the father of the hospitalist field, the fastest-growing specialty in the history of medicine. He is the author of five books, including the New York Times bestseller The Digital Doctor. Moderated by Michael Howell, Chief Health Officer.