MIT Sloan School of Management (Get Smarter)
Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Online Short Course
Cambridge, USA
Course
DURATION
6 weeks
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
USD 2,800
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Key Summary
Understand the applications, opportunities, and transformative potential of AI in your health care context.
Improving prediction is one of the key challenges the medical industry faces in advancing patient care. Enhancing diagnosis, individualizing treatments, and understanding disease progression are all matters of prediction, an area where machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) excel.1
Discover the impact AI innovations can have in medicine — on both traditional health care systems and decision-making approaches — with the Artificial Intelligence in Health Care online short course from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT J-Clinic.
Through industry case studies, you’ll better understand AI’s applications and limitations, examine the challenges AI can help overcome, and explore how it’s already been successfully deployed in the sector.
You’ll gain insight and knowledge from MIT, an institution renowned for developing ML methods with applications in health care. Regina Barzilay, your Faculty Director, is also globally recognized for her work in AI and breast cancer detection.
1 MIT Technology Review (April 2019).
Uncover opportunities for AI in health care
This MIT Sloan online short course is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Learn from industry thought leaders as you build an AI decision framework for evaluating the technology’s suitability in a health care context.
An online education that sets you apart
This MIT Sloan online program is delivered in collaboration with online education provider GetSmarter. Join a growing community of global professionals, and benefit from the opportunity to:
- Develop new competencies and earn valuable recognition from an international selection of universities, entirely online and in your own time frame.
- Enjoy a personalized, people-mediated online learning experience that supports you every step of the way.
- Experience a flexible but structured approach to online education as you plan your learning around your life to meet weekly milestones.
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Is this course for you?
Whether you work in business or medicine, this course will give you an understanding of the transformative role that AI and ML can play in the healthcare industry. Professionals working in the health sector will benefit from an understanding of the types of problems that AI techniques can help solve. This program covers key topics such as the basics of ML, neural networks, and deep learning. The knowledge gained throughout this course can be immediately and directly applied to roles within the health care sector.
You'll walk away with:
- 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.
- An awareness of how AI-powered solutions can transform health care, with opportunities including disease diagnosis and monitoring, clinical workflow augmentation, and hospital optimization.
- Insights into the various AI-based techniques impacting and improving upon traditional health care structures, including natural language processing, data analytics, and machine learning. Through industry case studies, you’ll better understand AI’s applications and limitations, examine the challenges AI can help overcome, and explore how it’s already been successfully deployed in the sector.
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.
Manage your time
GetSmarter's learning model is designed to help you, as a working professional, improve your skills without compromising on work and family responsibilities. The coursework is broken up into weekly, manageable bite-sized modules, with incremental deadlines, designed to help you pace yourself over the duration of the course and allow you the legroom to work when it suits you best.
At the beginning of each module, you'll be presented with the course content and assignments necessary for completion. You also have access to your Success Adviser, who will help you manage your time and support you with any administrative or technical queries you might have.
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Of our past students, 37 percent have received financial assistance from their employers. You can ask for help, too.
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