Tom Lawry serves as National Director of AI for Health & Life Sciences at Microsoft and previously served as Director of Worldwide Health. Tom works with providers, payors and life science organizations in planning & implementing innovative solutions that 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 Cognitive Services. He previously served as Director of Organizational Performance for Microsoft’s health incubator (Health Solutions Group).
Prior to Microsoft Tom served as a Senior Director at GE Healthcare with global responsibilities for revenue cycle analytics and operational performance solutions.
Lawry was founder and CEO of Verus, a 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 twelve years Lawry served in various executive management roles in hospitals and integrated delivery networks. He has published numerous articles on using technology to innovate healthcare. His last book, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: A Leader’s Guide to Winning in the New Age of Intelligent Health Systems, was a HIMSS 2020 Bestseller. His new book is Hacking Healthcare – How AI and the Intelligence Revolution will Reboot an Ailing System (Coming in May from Taylor & Francis Publishing).
Representative Keynote Presentations
“Why Healthcare Needs AI,” Arab Health, Virtual Event, June 2021
“AI’s Role in Bias and Equity,” American Telemedicine Association Fireside Chat Series, June 2021
“Making Healthcare More Delightful,” HLTH, Virtual Event, October 2020
“AI and the Creative Destruction of Healthcare,” OmniaHealth Keynote, Virtual Event, June 2020
“AI in Health – The Future is not What It Used to be,” Arab Health CEO Forum, Dubai, UAE, Feb. 2020
“AI, Digital, and the Creative Destruction of Careers in Healthcare,” Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy keynote, Toronto, Canada, May 2019
“Changing the Face of Healthcare with Artificial Intelligence,” The Intelligent Health Association’s AI in Health Conference, Las Vegas, NV, March 2018
“Empowering Healthcare with Systems of Intelligence,” HIMSS, Las Vegas, NV, March 2018
“Digital Transformation in Health – What Can Health Learn from the Private Sector?” The Nobel Forum, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2018
AI is Healthcare’s Next Big Thing,” European Health Innovation Summit, Brussels, Belgium, January 2017
“Health Policy in an Era of Big Data & Digital Transformation,” Commonwealth Fund International Symposium on Health Policy, Washington, D.C., November 2017