Reading List: Select Healthcare Transformation Library 2.0.

ABSTRACT

Reading List Select Healthcare Transformation Library 2.0 represents a broad-based, annotated, general reading list for students of health care innovation. The books were drawn from the 5,000-book private home library of Ronald S. Weinstein, MD, President Emeritus of the American Telemedicine Association. Weinstein is a lifelong book collector with special interests in the history of medical innovation and poetry. A Massachusetts General Hospital-trained pathologist and inductee into the US Distance Learning Association's Hall of Fame, he is known as a pioneer in telemedicine and the "father of telepathology" for his invention, patenting, and commercialization of telepathology, a subspecialty of telemedicine that is a billion-dollar worldwide industry today. This Reading List Select Healthcare Transformation Library 2.0 consists of 41 books divided into 10 sections (1) Human Intelligence, Behavior, and Creativity; (2) Societal Revolutions; (3) Innovation; (4) Healthcare System Transformations; (5) Education; (6) Transformational Technologies-Part 1 (AI, Automation, and Robotics); (7) Transformational Technologies-Part 2 (Telemedicine and Telehealth); (8) Digital Medicine; (9) Healthcare Transformation Implementation; and (10) COVID-19 Pandemic as an Innovation Accelerator.