AI and the Future of Healthcare: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Medicine, Public Health, Human Well-Being

Artificial intelligence is changing healthcare faster than most people realize.From AI-assisted diagnosis and robotic surgery to predictive medicine, digital health, drug discovery, and global disease surveillance, intelligent technologies are reshaping how healthcare is delivered-and how human well-being is understood.AI and the Future of Healthcare offers an accessible and wide-ranging guide to this transformation. It explains what artificial intelligence is, how it works, and where it is already making a difference across medicine and public health.Inside, you will explore: - How AI supports doctors, nurses, pharmacists, surgeons, and other healthcare professionals - The use of AI in primary care, emergency medicine, mental healthcare, oncology, cardiology, neurology, and pediatrics - How wearables, predictive analytics, precision medicine, and personalized healthcare are changing prevention and treatment - The role of AI in hospitals, healthcare administration, medical research, and drug discovery - The ethical challenges surrounding bias, privacy, cybersecurity, accountability, and patient trust - Whether AI will replace doctors-or help them provide more human-centered care - What the hospital of 2035 might look like - How AI could improve healthcare access and global health equityRather than presenting AI as either a miracle or a threat, Bernard Lemuel Zerubbabel Baah examines its possibilities and limitations with a human-centered perspective. The book considers not only what AI can do, but also what healthcare must continue to protect: compassion, dignity, fairness, human judgment, and the relationship between patients and caregivers.Whether you are a healthcare professional, student, policymaker, technology leader, researcher, or simply curious about the future of medicine, this book will help you understand the forces transforming healthcare-and prepare thoughtfully for what comes next.