H 301 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Understand how AI is changing healthcare 

In H 301 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, you’ll examine how artificial intelligence is used in clinical and administrative healthcare settings. You’ll learn core concepts in machine learning and generative AI, analyze real case studies and practice assessing reliability, accuracy and risk as AI tools move from innovation to implementation.

What makes this course stand out? 

Real healthcare case studies

Analyze how AI is developed and used in diagnosis, treatment, patient engagement and administrative workflows.

Evaluation and reliability

Practice assessing model performance, limitations and where hype outpaces evidence.

Ethics and equity focus

Examine fairness, representation, hallucinations and patient privacy in real-world scenarios.

Implementation mindset

Learn what it takes to integrate AI into existing systems, teams and workflows.

Project-based learning

Build a term-long project focused on an AI initiative in a healthcare specialty area with practical recommendations.

Who should take this course?

Healthcare administration students

Develop the skills to evaluate AI tools and make implementation decisions in healthcare organizations.

Public health majors

Consider how AI influences population health, equity and access across systems.

Pre-med and health professions students

Understand how AI supports clinical decisions and how to identify risk, bias and limitations.

Computer science and data science majors

Apply your technical interest to real healthcare use cases while strengthening ethics and implementation thinking.

College of Science students

Connect evidence, data quality and accuracy concepts to healthcare decisions that affect patients and communities.

Business administration majors

Examine how AI changes operations, compliance and strategy across healthcare industries.

Exploratory students

Gain a practical foundation in how AI is used in healthcare and what responsible use requires.

Degree and minor alignment

H 301 meets requirements for the:

• Healthcare administration major
• Public health major
• Applied AI in business minor