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AI in Healthcare Specialization

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Intermediate 120 hours English Specialization Certificate Certificate

About this course

This Stanford specialization covers the unique challenges of healthcare AI: clinical datasets, diagnostic models for medical imaging, electronic health record interpretation, and rigorous model evaluation in clinical contexts where errors have serious consequences.

The curriculum addresses regulatory considerations, algorithmic bias in healthcare, and the challenges of deploying AI in clinical workflows — the most comprehensive academic healthcare AI curriculum available on a MOOC platform.

What you'll learn

Apply ML to structured clinical data including EHR and claims data
Build diagnostic models for medical imaging including chest X-ray
Evaluate clinical AI models with appropriate medical performance metrics
Understand FDA regulation and clinical validation for AI systems
Identify and mitigate algorithmic bias in healthcare ML

This course includes

120h
On-demand video
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Certificate
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Mobile access
English
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Instructor

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Serena Yeung / Andrew Ng
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95K+ learners4 courses4.7 instructor rating

Taught by Stanford Medicine faculty including Andrew Ng and physician-researchers with expertise in clinical AI deployment.

Requirements

  • Basic Python and ML fundamentals; clinical knowledge helpful but not required

Who this course is for

  • Healthcare professionals learning to evaluate and work with AI tools
  • ML engineers entering healthcare or medical device industries
  • Researchers applying AI to clinical or biomedical problems

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Frequently asked questions

No — clinical concepts are explained as needed. ML background is more important than medical background.
Partially — the clinical data and imaging modules apply; drug discovery AI is a separate domain.
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