Nearly every industry is looking to leverage the power of AI, and health care is no exception. Understand the applications, opportunities, and transformative potential of AI in your health care context.
6 weeks, excluding
orientation
6–8 hours per week,
entirely online
Weekly modules,
flexible learning
Earn a digital
MIT Sloan certificate
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A robust AI decision framework, helping you understand the considerations associated with implementing AI in health care, and equipping you to ask the right questions about AI’s suitability to your context.
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An awareness of how AI-powered solutions can transform health care, with opportunities including disease diagnosis and monitoring, clinical workflow augmentation, and hospital optimization.
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Insights into the various AI-based techniques impacting and improving upon traditional health care structures, including natural language processing, data analytics, and machine learning.
Over the duration of this online program, you’ll work your way through the following modules:
Module 1: AI and Machine Learning — Applications and Foundations
Become familiar with supervised machine learning and the types of problems it may be applied to.
Module 2: Using AI for Disease Diagnosis and Patient Monitoring
Examine real-world applications of AI for diagnosis and patient monitoring.
Module 3: Natural Language Processing and Data Analytics in Health Care
Use AI to extract value-adding outcomes from medical literature and pathology reports.
Module 4: Interpretability in Machine Learning — Benefits and Challenges
Appreciate the importance and benefits of interpretable algorithms.
Module 5: Patient Risk Stratification and Augmenting Clinical Workflows
Discover how AI can be applied to health care interventions and patient care.
Module 6: Taking An Integrated Approach to Hospital Management and Optimization
Investigate a holistic approach to optimizing health care processes.
Regina Barzilay
School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI and Health; AI Faculty Lead, Jameel Clinic
Barzilay is a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is an AI faculty lead for Jameel Clinic, an MIT center for Machine Learning in Health. Her research interests are in machine learning models for molecular modeling with applications to drug discovery and clinical AI. She also works in natural language processing. She is a recipient of various awards and received her PhD in computer science from Columbia University. She also spent a year as a postdoc at Cornell University.
“What I most like from the course AI in Healthcare is its focus in a pragmatic way, showcasing the real life cases that is happening now in the healthcare environment and allows you to open your mind about how can you implement AI tools in your area of expertise among the huge universe of the healthcare sector. The learning structure of the course is a perfect balance to engage with the topics, tasks and assignements withouth feeling overwhelmed about your responsibilities as student but also as an employee in the place where you work. Now, I feel that I have the foundations to think widely and take the risk to try to implement an AI tool which will help in my job duties. Sharing ideas and opinions with classmates has been a great experience, as the diversity of jobs is huge and you can learn from other different point of views. There is an advantage that healthcare is so wide, so you can easily find different perspectives and point of views.”
Alejandro V. | Sr Commercial Director, Health GenAI
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