Foundation and Potential of AI in Healthcare
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Foundation and Potential of AI in Healthcare
This course is part of AI for Healthcare Systems Specialization
Instructor: Jiban Khuntia
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After completing this course, you will be able to describe what AI means for healthcare and health systems.
Understand how health systems broadly use AI for the enhancement of their capabilities.
You will also develop insights into the potential of AI to solve grand healthcare challenges.
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There are 4 modules in this course
This course introduces how AI shapes modern health systems, exploring key applications, adoption trends, and its role in digital transformation. Learners will assess AI’s potential to enhance healthcare capabilities, improve efficiency, and address major challenges. Designed for anyone interested in AI in healthcare, the course offers real-world examples to help participants evaluate AI’s impact, opportunities, and limitations in health systems.
Introduces the foundations of AI in healthcare, tracing its history and early applications to modern practices.
What's included
8 videos2 readings1 assignment
8 videos•Total 27 minutes
- Preliminary Meaning and Evolution of AI in Healthcare•4 minutes
- The Potential of AI for Healthcare Grand Challenges•3 minutes
- Introduction to AI•2 minutes
- AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning•4 minutes
- AI Concepts and Applications•3 minutes
- AI Evolution•5 minutes
- Genesis of AI to Healthcare•2 minutes
- State of AI in Healthcare•3 minutes
2 readings•Total 65 minutes
- Meet the Instructor •5 minutes
- Module 1 Background Materials•60 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Module 1 Quiz•30 minutes
Examines the current state of AI adoption in health systems, highlighting readiness, barriers, and use cases.
What's included
7 videos1 reading1 assignment
7 videos•Total 27 minutes
- What is Healthcare?•2 minutes
- Levels of Healthcare•3 minutes
- Evolution and Important Health System Components•5 minutes
- Digital Transformation of Health Systems and Solutions to Challenges•4 minutes
- Strive for Personalized Patient Care•3 minutes
- From Digitized to Intelligent Health Systems•3 minutes
- Where Health Systems Stand•6 minutes
1 reading•Total 60 minutes
- Module 2 Background Materials•60 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Module 2 Quiz•30 minutes
Explores how digitization and AI strengthen healthcare capabilities, from data-driven care to operational efficiency.
What's included
7 videos1 reading1 assignment
7 videos•Total 19 minutes
- Health Systems Capability Improvement Using Digitation and AI•4 minutes
- Capability Enhancement: AI-Driven Patient Engagement•3 minutes
- Capability Enhancement: AI for Clinical Decisions•3 minutes
- Capability Enhancement: AI for Operations•2 minutes
- Capability Enhancement: Examples•2 minutes
- AI-Enabled Capability Enhancement Results•2 minutes
- Can AI Itself Be a Smart Capability for Health Systems?•3 minutes
1 reading•Total 60 minutes
- Module 3 Background Materials•60 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Untitled•30 minutes
Investigates how AI can address major healthcare challenges such as chronic disease, health equity, and system inefficiencies.
What's included
8 videos1 reading1 assignment
8 videos•Total 28 minutes
- The Potential of AI for Healthcare Grand Challenges•3 minutes
- The Grand Challenge of Healthcare Complexity and Learning through AI•3 minutes
- Can AI Help to Solve the Grand Challenges of Increasing Healtcare Costs•4 minutes
- AI to Bridge the Healthcare Access Gap•4 minutes
- AI for Managing Chronic Disease: Management at Scale•5 minutes
- AI for Pandemic Response and Management•3 minutes
- Accelerating Medical Research•3 minutes
- Integrated Approach to Solve Healthcare Grand Challenges•3 minutes
1 reading•Total 60 minutes
- Module 4 Background Materials•60 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Module 4 Quiz•30 minutes
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Reviewed on Nov 8, 2025
It was a nice overview of AI in Healthcare. I was particularly interested in Module 4 when specific AI tools were discussed.
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