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  • Innovation with AI in Health Care

    October 19 – 27, 2026

    This program equips health care leaders to capture AI”s value and lead digital transformation, while connecting a diverse cohort across technical, clinical, and business roles.

    Online
    Artificial Intelligence and Technology
    AI in Health Care Certificate of Specialization

    Program Fees

    • Standard Price $2,600.00

Program Overview

Artificial intelligence is maturing rapidly across industries, yet healthcare continues to face challenges in realizing its full potential. At the same time, health systems around the world are grappling with aging populations, rising expectations, and escalating costs. Innovation with AI in Health Care offers a strategic roadmap to help organizations address these pressures and evolve into innovative, AI-enabled, 21st-century institutions.

A key barrier to AI adoption in healthcare is a lack of understanding among healthcare leaders. Many are unfamiliar with both the technical foundations of AI and the practical strategies required for successful, scalable implementation. As a result, the potential of AI to deliver value to patients, clinicians, and organizations often goes unrealized—leading to wasted resources and missed opportunities. This course addresses that gap by teaching the fundamentals of applied AI from a business perspective, equipping decision-makers with the intuition needed to avoid common pitfalls.

Innovation with AI in Health Care is designed to empower healthcare executives to strategically integrate and utilize AI tools to enhance their job functions. Participants will also learn to critically assess current AI technologies and anticipate future developments relevant to the healthcare industry, gaining actionable insights into the role of AI across the payer, provider, and pharmaceutical sectors. In addition, participants will be introduced to “vibe coding” as a rapid prototyping methodology for healthcare product development, complete with practical demonstrations from leading experts.

This course builds on Responsible AI for Health Care: Concepts and Applications. While each program can be taken independently, completing three healthcare AI courses in our portfolio earns the AI in Health Care Certificate of Specialization.

For those who have taken earlier versions of Applied AI in Health Care, this updated program reflects the latest developments in AI for healthcare, with fresh group projects and collaborative learning opportunities. For any questions about the programs or Certificate of Specialization, please email enrollment@hsph.harvard.edu.

Objectives & Highlights

  • Empower healthcare executives to strategically integrate and utilize AI tools to enhance their job functions
  • Introduce “vibe coding” as a rapid prototyping methodology for healthcare product development, complete with practical demonstrations
  • Develop a nuanced understanding of how to manage AI projects within a healthcare context, addressing practical challenges and ethical considerations
  • Enable participants to critically assess current AI technologies and anticipate future developments relevant to the healthcare industry
  • Provide actionable insights into the role of AI across the payer, provider, and pharmaceutical sectors of the healthcare industry
  • Discuss how large language models can, and have, been applied in healthcare
  • Understand the process of forming and managing data science teams in healthcare
  • Explain the workflow of using CNNs for image classification
  • Discuss how AI can be used to solve clinical problems
  • Describe the process of successfully implementing AI projects in large healthcare organizations
  • Identify future challenges and opportunities in generative AI
  • Reinforce principles of AI learned in the first course in our series, Responsible AI for Health Care: Concepts and Applications, or other related programs

Certificate of Specialization

Advance your Career with a Certificate of Specialization

This program contributes to the AI in Health Care Certificate of Specialization.  Click here for more information. 

Advance Your Career at Harvard with Innovation with AI in Health Care