Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

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How is artificial intelligence (AI) transforming healthcare? What will AI mean for doctors, nurses, hospitals, and the healthcare industry in general? What implications will this have for ethics, policy, and management decisions? This course explores the impact of AI in healthcare by examining current and future transformations of healthcare through emerging AI technologies. Aimed at assisting students looking to enter the healthcare industry, the course will examine the employment of AI in making medical decisions, the ethical implications of current and future AI usage, the proper management of AI in healthcare organizations, the effects of AI in the delivery of healthcare services, and the future of AI adoption in the healthcare industry. AI is already transforming the healthcare industry, and will likely bring monumental changes over the next decade. This course aims to prepare future healthcare professionals to understand these transformations and to critically examine the ways in which AI is now and will be used to care for humans in the future. This course fulfills the Ethical and Moral Reasoning Bridges competency. This is a fully-online, asynchronous course, and counts for the third elective of the ?AI & Digital Ethics? Micro-credential.