I believed that data saves lives: Health data, AI, and the reality of digital medicine

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Sylvia Thun

I believed that data saves lives

Name: I believed that data saves lives
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ISBN: 9783695706921

Health data, AI, and the reality of digital medicine

Sylvia Thun

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Bod - Books on Demand
09 January 2026

Medical equipment & techniques

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I Once Believed Data Would Save Lives is a personal and unsparing account a long struggle with digital health, told from the perspective of someone who has spent decades working at the intersection of medicine, technology, and policy. Drawing on her own biography, from early encounters with computing in the 1980s to leadership roles in national and European health data infrastructures, Sylvia Thun reflects on why digitalization in healthcare so often fails to deliver on its promises. The book traces the gap between technical possibility and institutional reality: brilliant standards that are ignored, successful European projects, and political decisions that prioritize compromise over coherence. Rather than celebrating technology for its own sake, this book insists on responsibility: responsibility for meaning, for interoperability, and for the people behind the data. Thun shows why artificial intelligence without standards is dangerous, why data spaces without shared semantics cannot scale, and why trust, not innovation is the scarcest resource in modern healthcare. At its core, this is not a book about technology. It is a book about people, power, governance, and the human cost of fragmented systems. It argues that digital health will only succeed if it serves those who are sick, supports those who care for them, and never forgets that behind every data point stands a human life.

By: Sylvia Thun
Imprint: Bod - Books on Demand
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 5mm
Weight: 95g
ISBN: 9783695706921
ISBN 10: 3695706929
Pages: 88
Publication Date: 09 January 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active