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Tom Lawry is the National Director for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Health & Life Sciences, at Microsoft (https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/industry-blog/microsoft-in-business/author/tom-lawry/). In this role he serves as a strategic advisor to provider, payer and life science organizations across the Americas, creating enterprise-wide AI initiatives designed to transform healthcare at scale. He focuses on technological, process and cultural redesign leading to the creation of Intelligent Health Systems that better empower patients, consumers and clinicians. Tom has also served as Director of Worldwide Health for Microsoft where he worked with a similar portfolio of organizations in planning and implementing innovative analytical solutions to improve the quality and efficiency of health services delivered around the globe. Tom focuses on strategies for digital transformation applied to performance optimization including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). He previously served as Director of Organizational Performance for Microsoft\\u2019s health incubator (Health Solutions Group). Prior to Microsoft, Tom served as a Senior Director at GE Healthcare with global responsibilities for revenue cycle management analytics and operational performance solutions. An accomplished entrepreneur, Tom was founder and CEO of Verus, a U.S.-based healthcare software company named as one of the Top 100 Fastest Growing Washington Companies for three consecutive years and to the Deloitte Fast 500 Technologies list. For fourteen years, Tom served in various executive management roles in hospitals and integrated delivery networks in the United States and has published over 30 articles on topics relating to use technology and software to innovate healthcare. Tom is also an accomplished author of the books Hacking Healthcare: How AI and the Intelligence Revolution Will Reboot an Ailing System (https://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Healthcare-Intelligence-Revolution-Reboot/dp/1032260157), as well as AI in Health: A Leader\\u2019s Guide to Winning in the New Age of Intelligent Health Systems (https://www.amazon.com/Health-HIMSS-Book-Tom-Lawry/dp/0367333716/ref=pd_lpo_2?pd_rd_i=0367333716&psc=1).