Announcing NIHI microcredential courses starting winter 2025

WATERLOO and HAMILTON, Ont. – The National Institutes of Health Informatics and McMaster University Continuing Education are offering new micro-courses for healthcare professionals, beginning this winter, 2025. They are: “Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare,” “Leadership in Healthcare: Resilient Leadership,” “Return on Investment Fundamentals in Healthcare,” “Data Strategy for Healthcare Organizations,” and “ePrivacy Fundamentals.” The courses are available online, with early bird registration closing on December 20th, 2024.

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
This course provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of developing and implementing data strategies in the healthcare sector. It will include how to evaluate AI tools for fairness, transparency, and alignment with ethical standards in healthcare applications.

9 Sessions: 3 Live, 6 Recorded
Mondays, February 10, 24, and March 10, 2025
12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
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Leadership in Healthcare: Resilient Leadership
To build strong teams, you need to build your own resilience but how do you do this? In this course, you will identify the areas preventing you from achieving your own resilience, design a plan to create that resilience, and have the tools to help your staff and build strong teams.

8 Sessions, Live, Interactive, Online
Tuesdays, February 4 – March 25, 2025
12:00 – 1:00 PM ET
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Return On Investment Fundamentals in Health Care
This course will provide the knowledge and skills to participants to measure value, impact, and ROI in healthcare improvement initiatives using the Phillips ROI Methodology. Artificial Intelligence is evolving; the course will address how to prove the impact of AI in health care.

8 Sessions, Live, Interactive, Online
Wednesdays, February 5 – March 26, 2025
12:00 – 1:00 PM ET
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Data Strategy for Healthcare Organizations
This course provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of developing and implementing data strategies in the healthcare sector. It will include how to evaluate AI tools for fairness, transparency, and alignment with ethical standards in healthcare applications.

9 Sessions, 3 Live, 6 Recorded
Mondays, February 10, 24, and March 10, 2025
12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
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ePrivacy Fundamentals
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of privacy and how to use this knowledge to build privacy programs in healthcare organizations. It will include an examination of the risks associated with Artificial Intelligence and the best practices for deploying AI technologies effectively.

13 Sessions, 3 Live, 10 Recorded
Mondays, March 3, 17, and 31, 2025
12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
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