Humans to the Power of AI: A Leader's Guide to Scaling AI in Healthcare

Humans to the Power of AI is a guide for healthcare leaders who sense the urgency to scale AI, yet feel unsure where to begin or how to make this digital transformation different from the past. It's a guide for leaders who refuse to accept slow progress, mounting complexity, and unrealized innovation as the status quo. If you entered healthcare to make a lasting difference—and you’re determined to lead at a moment when AI is reshaping everything—you’ll find in these pages the roadmap you’ve been searching for.AI is accelerating faster than our ability to adopt it, creating a gap between what’s possible and what’s actually happening in the healthcare industry. The real barrier isn’t the technology—it’s the human side of change. Leaders feel the friction every day: stalled initiatives, siloed teams, repeated delays, overwhelming complexity, and workforce exhaustion. Meanwhile, patients wait years for solutions that could change and even save their lives. This book shows you how to close that gap with confidence, clarity, and purpose.Drawing on decades of applied leadership, culture, and human performance research Jake Herway introduces the Digital-Ready Roadmap, a proven, human-centered model for scaling AI in a way that amplifies human performance instead of replacing it. You’ll discover why the most advanced technology fails without the right mindsets, and how your leadership identity shapes transformation outcomes. Through industry case studies, research-backed principles, and field-tested tools used by healthcare leaders around the world, you’ll learn how to accelerate buy-in, eliminate stagnation, and solve the right problems to deliver measurable outcomes with less friction and more meaning.You’ll learn how AI shrinks your margin for leadership error and what to do to expand your capacity to meet the moment. You’ll learn why AI efficiency without intent only creates more complexity, how trust accelerates AI adoption, and how to use experiences to reshape needed mindsets at scale. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to lead AI transformations that feel energizing instead of overwhelming, personal instead of abstract, and anchored in the purpose that brought you to healthcare in the first place.If you are ready to turn buy-in into advocacy, confusion into clarity, and stalled implementation into completed wins, Humans to the Power of AI will show you how. This is your moment to lead with intention, elevate human potential, and leave a legacy measured not only in organizational outcomes but in lives improved!“Jake Herway’s book cuts straight to the core problem: achieving sustained AI results in organizations depends fundamentally on human adoption. He provides a simple, actionable methodology for building the trust and competence required to fully leverage these tools. This is essential reading for leaders focused on accelerating our operations and ensuring our digital investments deliver measurable business impact.”— Dr. Alan Hippe, Group CFO at Roche“A Leadership Operating System for the AI Era. In Humans to the Power of AI, Jake Herway distills twenty years of transformation science into a playbook every healthcare and biopharma leader should study. For leaders shaping AI-ready data ecosystems towards creating insights from data for desired business outcomes, this is the human-side operating system we’ve been missing.”—Cenk Undey, PhD, Global iCMC Digital Transformation Program Lead, Sanofi"Finally, someone who understands that healthcare technology adoption isn't just about the tools, it's about the humans using them. This book improved how I approach digital transformation, providing a clear roadmap for turning skeptics into champions and obstacles into opportunities."—Chris Kopinski, Head of GTM, Healthcare & Life Sciences Products, Amazon Web Services Read more