The AI Playbook

14 Laws to Turn Intelligence Into Action

The physician's operating system for AI that actually works.

Most organizations buy AI like software: vendor demo, pilot project, launch day, move on. Then they wonder why 73% of healthcare AI pilots are declared successes while fewer than 12% change a single clinical outcome.

The problem is not the technology. The problem is the frame.
Emergency physician and AI leader Harvey Castro MD introduces the SIDA Stack, 14 predictive laws across four forces, and a 90-day action cycle that transforms how healthcare organizations evaluate, deploy, and scale artificial intelligence. This is not another "AI is coming" book. This is the field manual for leaders who need AI to produce measurable results.

Inside you will discover:

• The SIDA Stack: why most AI investments stall at Signal and Intelligence and never reach Decision and Action

• 14 Laws drawn from economics, network theory, and organizational science that predict exactly where AI initiatives succeed or fail

• The Cheaper-Costs-More Paradox: why falling AI prices actually increase your total costs

• The Trust Architecture: the difference between blind trust, blind distrust, and calibrated trust in clinical AI

• The D3 Action Cycle: Diagnose, Discover, Deliver, repeated every 90 days to compound results

• 21 original infographics that make every framework immediately actionable

Written for: Chief Medical Officers, Chief AI Officers, CMIOs, CIOs, department chiefs, physician leaders, health system executives, and any clinician responsible for making AI work in a real clinical environment.

Harvey Castro, MD, MBA is an emergency physician, AI futurist, and internationally recognized keynote speaker. He is the first author to publish on ChatGPT and healthcare and has delivered talks at TEDx, SXSW, HIMSS, and health systems worldwide.

If your AI strategy is based on hope instead of laws, start here.