"The hospital administration aims at cost-effective and professional treatment processes with an emphasis on preventive action strategies. Challenges of healthcare administration are related to the effective management and coordination of the systemic entity. Increase of older age groups and the expected rise of healthcare costs require new type of resource planning in hospital management. Emergent technologies and AI are expected to assist health professionals even in these challenges. Ethical acceptability, patient safety, respect for life, and professionalism in care are the main aims in translational innovation policy within healthcare. Well-functioning synergy is essential between health IT and clinical practice. The development of this area requires intensive cooperative design between clinicians, IT- designers, and experts from different fields. Also, patients have their role in joint design processes.

Process reengineering and change management require general awareness and also explicit identification of systemic and hospital specific problems and new approaches in technology assessment. Today, the possibilities of assisting AI within hospital administration are in intense research focus. The methods of AI are combined e.g. with the models of system analysis, such as for simulation, optimization, queuing and game theory, and predictive analytics. Therefore, thoughtfully designed AI support may bring to administrative decisions making processes more data-driven insights as well promote actions which also increase patient safety cost-efficiently. AI is expected to free health professionals time for actual patient work. Even though in healthcare AI is seen as one part of information security management, the increase in AI as part of application development also increases challenges which relate to data security, privacy, and ethics.

This book introduces strategic outlines when managing and designing AI support for hospitals. It underlines development areas, significant in terms of cost intensity, patient safety, and from an ethical point of view. Values, renewed education and counseling policy, coordination, and synergy thinking form the essence in persuasive development policy"-- Provided by publisher.