Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Fundamentals and Applications

AI plays an increasingly important role in patient treatment. With its ability to accurately predict diseases at early stages, AI is regarded as a powerful tool in today’s healthcare industry.

Since AI offers benefits such as informed patient care, improved patient safety, and innovative treatment options, it isn’t surprising that 56% of clinicians believe that most of their decisions over the next decade will be made using AI-based clinical decision support tools. However, clinicians face a knowledge gap and report the rising need for professionals who understand AI-based technologies and ways of leveraging them for the advantage of healthcare providers and patients.

With a focus on the application of AI in modern-day healthcare, MIT xPRO’s AI in Healthcare: Fundamentals and Applications program is designed to give clinical leaders, healthcare IT professionals, and healthcare entrepreneurs the opportunity to learn how AI technologies can make a difference in patient treatment and enable them to develop innovative solutions to the healthcare challenges of today and tomorrow.

A basic understanding of artificial AI, machine learning, data science, and AI in healthcare is ideal in order to make the most of this program.

• Technical professionals in the healthcare industry: Technical professionals, such as technical product managers, product managers, directors of product, product design managers, engineering managers, technology project managers, directors of engineering, and directors of technology, who are looking to drive the adoption of AI technology in healthcare at their organizations by adding AI products and services to their arsenals so as to empower patient care

• Entrepreneurs: Leaders in their organizations’ foray into AI technology in healthcare who are searching for the right AI solutions to impact millions of lives

• Clinical leaders: Senior physicians, department chairs, medical directors, chief medical officers, physician service line directors, nurse leaders, hospital administrators, directors of clinical services, and nursing/medical school deans seeking to sharpen their understanding of AI products and methodologies to advance patient care and identify new opportunities emerging from the field

• Tech consultants in healthcare: Consultants in hospitals, digital health, pharma, med tech, research, and insurance who are responsible for shaping the AI strategies for organizations and are, therefore, looking to upgrade their knowledge about new technologies, thereby changing the healthcare system

This program is designed to equip you with the skills to broaden your understanding of the applications of AI technology in healthcare. The program will help you to:

Build a Foundation

• Learn about the AI design process model through its various stages

• Understand different machine learning algorithms and how they can be applied in varying scenarios

• Examine neural network NLP algorithms and their widespread application

• Discover the possibilities and limitations of biomechatronics

Apply Your Skills

• Use the four stages of the AI design process model to solve a technical healthcare problem

• Run an implementation of a single- and multilayer perceptron in Python

• Develop an idea for an ingestible robot to solve a healthcare problem

• Use the peloton framework, designed by research scientist Brian Subirana, within your specific healthcare domain

Execute

• Assess business and technical requirements for AI

• Map the AI design process and arrive at a cost model

• Resolve a communication problem while using prosthetics

• Develop an AI product or service for healthcare

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