• Identify Opportunities: Assess how AI, Generative AI, and Agentic AI are reshaping diagnosis, treatment, patient care, and healthcare operations, and identify where these technologies can create meaningful value.
• Make Sense of Data: Interpret healthcare data and AI-driven insights to support more confident clinical, operational, and patient-care decisions.
• Prioritise Practical Use Cases: Evaluate AI applications across diagnostics, patient monitoring, drug discovery, and care workflow optimisation with a clear view of impact, feasibility, and responsible use.
• Augment Clinical Knowledge: Apply Generative AI tools to improve clinical documentation, patient summaries, communication, reporting, and knowledge management.
• Create AI-Enabled Care Workflows: Design AI-enabled healthcare workflows that improve efficiency, strengthen care coordination, and enhance patient experience while maintaining safety and trust.
• Transform Strategy into Action: Develop practical strategies for implementing and scaling AI solutions within healthcare organisations while aligning with patient safety, clinical priorities, and organisational readiness.
Online
5 Months
IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation
Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) of IIT Madras
and
Emeritus
(For Indian Residents)
Programme Fee: INR 154900 + GST
Application Fee: INR 1200 + GST
Graduates (10+2+3) from a recognized university (Medical Graduates Preferred) as on the programme start date
Mr. Laxminarayan G, Guest Faculty, IITM Pravartak
Laxminarayanan G. is a Strategic AI and Generative AI leader with over two decades of experience driving large-scale digital transformation and automation-led value across the BFSI, CPG, and Technology sectors. A recognised TEDx speaker and trusted advisor to institutions such as ISRO and the IIMs, he has played a key role in influencing CXO-level AI strategy and enterprise adoption globally.
He has built and scaled world-class AI and GenAI practices, delivering over $20M in business impact. His expertise spans GPT-4, Azure OpenAI, RAG systems, and enterprise AI platforms. A distinguished mentor to ISRO, Intel OneAPI Innovator, and visiting faculty at IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode, and IIM Indore, he actively teaches and mentors in AI, analytics, digital transformation, and strategic growth.
Module 1: The Digital Revolution in Healthcare
How healthcare is digitising
New tech in diagnosis and treatment
How AI and robotics are used in care
Module 2: How AI Works in Healthcare
Key AI terms explained
How to frame a problem for AI
What data an AI model needs
Basics of evaluating an AI model
Common deployment challenges
Designing an AI-first healthcare idea
Module 3: Biomedical Informatics and Healthcare Data
What biomedical data is
Types of healthcare data
How health systems share and use data
Simple queries for healthcare data
Module 4: AI Models and Healthcare Applications
How AI learns from healthcare data
Supervised and unsupervised learning in healthcare
Pattern recognition in clinical and imaging data
Common healthcare AI applications
Understanding model outputs and predictions
Limitations of AI models in healthcare
Module 5: Use of Hybrid Clouds in Healthcare
Why hospitals use cloud systems
How AI improves admin tasks
Cloud strategies with AWS, Azure and Google
Module 6: AI in Clinical Decision Making
Predicting disease risk
AI-based patient scoring
AI-assisted diagnosis and monitoring
Module 7: AI for Healthcare Operations and Patient Flow
AI for patient flow and bed management
AI for scheduling and operations
Case example: AI in emergency call centres
Module 8: Role of AI in Drug Discovery
Why drug discovery is hard
How AI speeds discovery
AI across the drug development cycle
Module 9: Generative AI for Clinical Documentation and Summaries
Drafting clinical notes
Summarising patient records
Creating discharge summaries
Module 10: Generative AI for Patient Communication and Education
Generating instructions
Translating medical terms
Simplifying patient explanations
Module 11: Generative AI in Diagnostics and Reporting
Drafting structured reports
Pattern-based prompting
Assisting specialist reviews
Module 12: Safe and Responsible Use of Generative AI
Avoiding hallucinations
Validating AI outputs
Safe-use guidelines
Module 13: Introduction to AI Agents in Healthcare
What AI agents are
Where agents fit in hospital workflows
Module 14: Workflow Automation with AI Agents
Automating routine tasks
Follow-ups and reminders
Care coordination tasks
Module 15: Agents for Operations and Resource Management
Scheduling agents
Resource allocation agents
Patient routing agents
Module 16: Implementing AI in Clinical Practice
How clinical AI is deployed
Regulation and ethics
What makes AI adoption successful
AI in monitoring and wearable tech
LLMs for clinical workflows
AI in treatment planning
Module 17: Human–AI Collaboration in Healthcare
Where AI supports clinicians
Combining human and AI judgment
Building trust in AI tools
The human-in-the-loop model
Reducing errors through collaboration
Real hospital examples
Module 18: The Potential for Bias and Harm in AI
Common sources of bias
How to reduce bias
Safe deployment practices
Module 19: Building AI-Ready Healthcare Systems
Steps to adopt AI in hospitals
How to measure AI ROI
Global examples of AI systems
Designing AI-Driven Healthcare Solutions
Choose a real healthcare problem
Design and test an AI intervention
Present solution and receive feedback