Artificial Intelligence within the Healthcare System (7.5 credits)

Artificial intelligence (AI) will be an important part of tomorrow’s healthcare systems in most developed countries. With new medical technology tools for early detection and prevention of diseases, health data can be used systematically and strategically to keep us healthier for longer throughout our lives and to detect various diseases or risk of diseases at a very early stage. Intelligent medical decision support systems enable healthcare providers to work more efficiently and provide the right support at the right time. This course will introduce students to the basic concepts of medical decision support systems currently used in major Swedish hospitals. The course will also include and explain important parameters such as prevalence, sensitivity, specificity, predictors, and the meaning of evidence-based healthcare. Based on the knowledge of AI that students have already acquired in the programme, they will develop a simpler concept of intelligent medical decision support system for a specific disease (e.g. heart failure, cancer or pain) by taking into account important parameters in healthcare, and present this to their fellow students. The course also addresses how new medical aids, such as AI-based support systems, can be implemented within the Swedish healthcare system and the challenges associated with the introduction of new medical technologies in healthcare.