AI in Health Care: From

Strategies to Implementation
Implement Strategic AI Solutions to Tackle
Modern Health Care Challenges

Today’s health care consumers are more

informed and empowered; therefore,
meeting their demands requires solutions
that are convenient, personalized and
precise. Artificial intelligence (AI) and its
data processing, data analysis and data-
driven decision-making capabilities can
enable customized treatment plans, more
in-depth care and better health outcomes.

In spite of these benefits, only 25 percent

of health care organizations have
implemented AI and machine learning, as
revealed by the 32nd Barometer survey.
This highlights the distinctive challenges
associated with the use of these
technologies in the health care
ecosystem. To successfully implement an
AI-driven health care solution, leaders
must navigate a number of complexities,
including data quality and bias, algorithmic
trust and skills deficits, while maintaining
a focus on patient-centric strategies and
treatment options.

The eight-week online AI in Health Care:

From Strategies to Implementation
program is designed by Harvard Medical
School Executive Education to equip
health care leaders with the knowledge
and strategies to design, pitch and
implement AI-driven solutions and bring
about transformative change in their
organizations. The program’s curriculum
prepares leaders to make informed
decisions and envision strategic AI
implementation in the unique cultural,
economic and regulatory context of
health care.

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Key Takeaways

Guided by expert Harvard Medical School faculty, you will develop a deep understanding of
real-world data, digital medicine and AI applications and learn to translate AI concepts into
actionable success. Through case studies, real-world examples and a capstone project, you
will gain the skills needed to frame a machine learning solution for a health care challenge,
evaluate and select appropriate AI models and implement AI strategies from end to end.

Explain the fundamentals of modern methods in AI, including the role of data and computing
in building successful AI applications.

Evaluate existing AI systems in health care to understand their strengths and weaknesses.

Identify new opportunities for AI in health care to address unmet needs.

Assess the ethical implications and potential biases of AI technologies in health care settings.

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Who Is This Program For?

The AI in Health Care: From Strategies to Implementation program is designed for leaders and
innovators, including:

Medical professionals and researchers who are seeking practical knowledge of how to integrate
AI technologies to optimize health care processes, improve decision making in patient care and
remain at the forefront of their field

Health care leaders and executives who seek a deeper understanding of how to implement AI
initiatives that improve patient care, enhance operational efficiency, foster innovation and give
their organizations an edge in today’s complex health care landscape

AI technology and innovation enthusiasts who understand AI’s potential to transform health care
and want to lead innovation to create cutting-edge solutions that meet the needs of today’s health
care systems and patients

Health care consultants, regulators and policymakers who are guiding organizations through the
adoption of AI-driven solutions or developing policies for the use of AI in health care

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Curriculum

Module 1​: The History and Foundations of AI

AI has come a long way in a short amount of time. Examine its evolution, differentiate between
supervised and self-supervised learning and explore emerging AI applications in health care.

Identify key moments in AI history

Distinguish between supervised and self-supervised learning
Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of large language models (LLMs)
Apply generative AI for medical applications

Module 2​: A Framework for the AI Development Pipeline

Creating and implementing an AI health care solution involves a careful balance of training,
validation and deployment. Explore each stage of the AI development pipeline, and formulate
an idea for an AI-driven health care solution that you will work on throughout the program to
fulfill the capstone requirement.

Become fluent in key AI terminology

Define a problem as a machine learning solution
Identify the key pieces of data you need to build a machine learning model
Discover how to perform an initial evaluation of a machine learning model
Understand the importance of prospective validation and common methods
Identify common challenges and pitfalls in model validation and deployment
Develop an idea for an AI-first health care solution

Module 3​: From the Lab to the Real World

Leveraging the power of AI in a health care setting can be challenging. Examine the
complexities of developing successful AI-driven products for the health care industry, and
identify the factors that must be considered to create a successful product.

Identify factors that affect label quality and learn effective labeling strategies
Determine the steps required to follow a human-centered approach for product design
Understand global and local transparency and trust-building in the context of AI
Describe the role, timing and importance of proactive monitoring
Discover how implementation, cultural change and health economics research outcomes
affect product adoption
Learn about the gap between the lab and the real world

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Module 4​: Transparency, Reproducibility and Generalizability in AI

Risk prediction models assess the likelihood of a given patient outcome. Discover common
evaluation measures used with these models and the level of certainty required for clinical
decision making.

Identify common evaluation measures for AI models applied in health care settings.
Recognize the level of certainty required to take clinical action
Understand the role transparency plays in selecting and evaluating AI models
Examine the difference between methodological and computational reproducibility and the
implications for the clinical use of AI models
Explore the barriers and approaches to achieving generalizability for AI models across
different health care settings

Module 5​: The Potential for Bias and Harm in AI

The AI development pipeline offers a host of benefits, but it also introduces potential ethical
concerns. Examine each pipeline stage through the lens of ethics, and equip yourself with the
knowledge to identify and avoid ethically problematic choices and practices throughout the
development process

Identify the types and sources of bias that may be present in health care data and labels, and
use this knowledge to inform your labeling strategies
Contextualize and assess the pros and cons of including demographic attributes in clinical
risk scores
Describe effective model deployment strategies that can offset model errors or bias

Module 6​: AI for Startups

AI implementation carries a unique set of considerations for startups. Guided by a leader in the
AI startup world, learn to transform your idea for an AI-first health care solution into a
compelling story and viable investor pitch

Learn to develop an idea for an AI-first health care solution into a pitch
Explore strategies you can use to build and scale your solution
Identify sustainable growth strategies for an AI-first health care solution

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Module 7​: AI for Wearable Data
Explore the advantages and disadvantages of leveraging machine learning to collect and
assess wearable data, and examine the role of community benchmarks and transparency in
developing machine learning methods.

Recognize the potential scope of Person-Generated Health Data (PGHD) and why it matters
Determine the importance of context, scale, consent and diversity considerations for the
use of PGHD
Discover the benefits of machine learning approaches to wearable data and the connection
with sequence-to-sequence models
Identify machine learning applications of wearable data in disease detection and monitoring

Module 8​: Live Session—Capstone Presentations

A viable pitch is instrumental to securing funding for an AI-first health care solution. Join the
members of your cohort as some of them share pitches for their solution and examine what
makes an effective pitch and why

Create an effective pitch for an AI-first health care solution

Recognize the essential elements in the pitch delivered by the selected cohort members

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Featured Activities and Assignments

A series of scenario-based assignments allow you to practice applying the strategies needed
to implement AI-first health care solutions that align with organizational needs and improve
health care outcomes.

Algorithmic Trust
Assess the pros and cons of following a course of action in a medical scenario, and
decide what level of certainty is required to confidently act on the AI
recommendation.

Model Cards
Using a series of scenarios, determine the types of information that should be
documented on the model card for a machine learning model that is designed to
identify and monitor patients who are at a high risk for sepsis.

Machine Learning for Wearables

Determine how wearables and machine learning could be used to detect a new disease.

AI Viability in Health Care

Explore a case involving a new AI-driven health care product or service, and evaluate
it against the same criteria you will use as you develop and pitch an AI health care
solution for your capstone project.

Capstone Project
The capstone project is a core component of your readiness to implement AI in a real-world
health care setting. The project will require you to ideate and pitch a new AI-first health care
solution that addresses an unmet need. Your project will span the course of the program,
enabling you to incorporate the concepts and frameworks you learn in each module to
develop your pitch.

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Featured Case Studies

EchoNet-Dynamic Evidation
Explore the key stages of the See how this data-driven health
development pipeline for this care organization tracked data
innovative AI model that is sources from iPhones, iPads
helping to automate and and Beddit's in-bed sensors to
improve the accuracy of understand behavioral patterns
cardiac assessment. associated with cognitive
impairment.

Flagship Pioneering Generate: Biomedicines

Learn how this biotech leader Find out how this innovative
builds and grows organizations drug organization built its
at the intersection of machine success in generative biology
learning and science. by using AI to create novel
protein therapeutics across
multiple modalities and
therapeutic areas.

Google Health Sage Bionetworks

Get firsthand insights into how Discover how researchers at
this technology organization’s this nonprofit health research
research on human-centered organization used tools to
design is transforming the objectively benchmark the
future of health care. performance of computational
methods and disseminate
community-verified methods.

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Program Experience

One live session

Capstone project
with lead faculty*

Polls and Practical, scenario-based

knowledge checks assignments

Certificate of completion
Weekly live office hours
from Harvard Medical
with program facilitator
School Executive Education

Real-world examples
Crowdsourcing
and case studies

Guest speakers Immersive discussions

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Meet the Faculty

Andrew Beam, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Andrew Beam, PhD, conducts research focused on the

development and application of machine learning methods
to extract meaningful insights from clinical and
biological datasets.

Prior to joining Harvard, he was a senior fellow at Flagship

Pioneering and the founding head of machine learning at
VL56, a Flagship-backed venture that seeks to use machine learning to improve the ability to
engineer proteins. Beam also holds secondary appointments in the Department of Biomedical
Informatics at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Newborn Medicine at Brigham
and Women's Hospital.

Featured Guest Faculty

Lily Peng, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist and the deputy editor of

NEJM AI. She is a former product manager with a focus on data-driven
health care solutions and applications of deep learning that increase the
availability and accuracy of care. She has made significant contributions
toward building models that detect diabetic eye disease, skin diseases,
breast cancer and lung cancer and predict cardiovascular health factors
from retinal images. Peng is also a co-founder of Nano Precision
Medical, a drug delivery device startup. Dr. Peng was recently named
Director, Health & AI at Apple

Sunny Virmani, MS is a product manager with Google Health. He focuses

on product development and global marketing of diverse medical imaging
technologies. He holds a BS in instrumentation and control engineering
from Savitribai Phule Pune University and an MS in biomedical
engineering from The University of Akron.

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 Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc, is the chief health AI officer at UC San
Diego Health and the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Endowed Chair in Digital
Health Innovation. He teaches a health data science course to graduate
and doctoral students and provides clinical care for people with kidney
disease. Before this appointment, he was an assistant professor at the
University of Michigan, where he directed the Machine Learning for
Learning Health Systems (ML4LHS) Lab. Singh’s work in machine learning
and digital health has been published in leading journals, including the
New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, British Medical Journal, Nature
Machine Intelligence, Health Affairs, Clinical Journal of the American
Society of Nephrology, Ophthalmology, Radiology and European Urology.

Marzyeh Ghassemi, PhD, is an assistant professor at MIT in electrical

engineering and computer science (EECS) and Institute for Medical
Engineering & Science (IMES) and a Vector Institute faculty member
holding a Canadian CIFAR AI Chair and Canada Research Chair. She has a
well-established academic track record across computer science and
clinical venues, including NeurIPS, KDD, AAAI, MLHC, JAMIA, AMIA-CRI,
Nature Medicine, Nature Translational Psychiatry and Critical Care. Her
work has also been featured in the popular press, including MIT News,
NVIDIA and Huffington Post. Ghassemi holds a Herman L. F. von Helmholtz
Career Development Professorship and was named a CIFAR Azrieli Global
Scholar and one of MIT Tech Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35.

Molly Gibson, PhD, is a principal at Flagship Pioneering and works as part of

a venture-creation team to find and grow organizations at the intersection
of biology and machine learning. Gibson currently serves as co-founder and
chief innovation officer of Generate: Biomedicines. Prior to joining Flagship
in 2017, she led computational biology at Kaleido Biosciences. In this role,
she developed the organization's computational platform for the discovery
of microbiome metabolic therapeutics, now in clinical development.

Luca Foschini, PhD, is the president and CEO of Sage Bionetworks. Over
the past decade, Foschini’s research has focused on the emerging field of
digital medicine, with an emphasis on data recollection and analysis
methodology. He co-founded and served as chief data scientist at
Evidation, where he led a team of over 50 health data scientists and
shaped the role and requirements for the health data scientist profession.
He also led Evidation’s research and development efforts and collaborated
with top biopharma organizations to provide technology and methodology
for collecting and analyzing (PGHD) from sources such as smartphones
and wearables to measure human health.

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Certificate

Upon completion of this program, you will receive a verified digital certificate from Harvard
Medical School Executive Education.

Your digitally verified certificate will be issued in your legal name and emailed to you, at no additional cost, upon
completion of the program, per the stipulated requirements. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only
and may be subject to change at the discretion of Harvard Medical School Executive Education.

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