• Executive education

Executive Certificate in AI and Digital Transformation in Healthcare

Equipping healthcare leaders to scale responsible AI and digital innovation across clinical workflows, regulation and organisational readiness — translating capability into measurable improvements in care and outcomes.

Course key facts

  • Date

    28 May - 10 September 2026

  • Duration

    15 weeks

  • Credits

    Non credit bearing

  • Format

    Online

  • Fee

    £2,300

  • Location

    Online

Overview

Equip yourself with the strategic insight, leadership capabilities and practical tools to drive digital transformation and responsible AI adoption in clinical environments with the Executive Certificate in AI and Digital Transformation in Healthcare from Imperial.

Why choose this multiprogramme learning journey?

Healthcare is being reshaped by AI, digital platforms, automation and data-driven models. Yet real impact demands leaders who can cut through complexity — aligning technology, clinical workflows, regulation and organisational readiness into a cohesive, future-focused strategy.

The Executive Certificate in AI and Digital Transformation in Healthcare equips you to lead confidently at this critical intersection. This comprehensive multiprogramme experience integrates Imperial’s Digital Transformation in Healthcare and AI in Healthcare: Leading Responsible Adoption at Scale programmes, combining system-wide digital strategy with practical, responsible AI adoption.

Designed for healthcare leaders like you navigating this unprecedented AI advancement in the field, the programme gives you the frameworks, tools and strategic insight to translate digital innovation and AI capability into meaningful, measurable improvements in healthcare delivery, patient outcomes and organisational performance.

Key takeaways

Through this multiprogramme learning journey, you will gain the strategic insight and leadership skills to drive digital transformation and scale responsible AI adoption in healthcare. Each programme builds targeted capabilities that support designing digital strategies and leading organisational change to implementing ethical, data-driven healthcare solutions.

The AI in Healthcare programme will enable you to:

  • Analyse the opportunities, risks and constraints of applying AI across healthcare settings, particularly in diagnostics, clinical decision-making and workflow optimisation.

  • Design leadership strategies for driving AI transformation and improving patient outcomes.

  • Evaluate key regulatory and cybersecurity considerations governing AI as a medical device across the United Kingdom, the European Union and the United States jurisdictions.

  • Apply AI principles and the Learning Health System (LHS) framework to real-world use cases.

  • Assess the strategic and regulatory implications of AI adoption.

  • Differentiate among AI model types (including agentic AI) and their applications within healthcare contexts.

The Digital Transformation in Healthcare programme will enable you to:

  • Describe the key technologies associated with digital health transformation.
  • Explore the role of digital health technologies in shaping future models of healthcare.
  • Describe the differences in digital transformation in different types of healthcare. organisations: primary and secondary care providers, drug companies, and insurers and payers.
  • Identify the challenges, success factors and approaches to the implementation of digital health innovation.

 

 

Learning journey

AI in Healthcare: Leading Responsible Adoption at Scale | 6 weeks | Online

Gain a holistic understanding of how AI can enhance care delivery safely, ethically and sustainably through a curriculum integrating technology, policy, leadership and regulation.

  • Module 1: AI in Healthcare: Introduction, Opportunities and Challenges

  • Module 2: Agentic AI in Healthcare: From Transformers to Agents

  • Module 3: AI as a Healthcare Tool: Regulatory Readiness

  • Module 4: Clinical Decisions with AI

  • Module 5: AI Market and Organisational Readiness

  • Module 6: Systems Thinking and Leadership in AI

Course details

This Programme has been designed with the same careful balance of teaching, hands-on coursework and training that Imperial College London values across all of its programmes. As one of the top ten universities worldwide, Imperial drives global business and social transformation through the fusion of business, technology and an entrepreneurial mindset. We attract brilliant minds and provide the environment to foster innovative thinking, resulting in groundbreaking ideas that unlock business opportunities.

Your instructors

James Barlow

Professor of Technology and Innovation Management (Healthcare)

James Barlow is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management (Healthcare) at Imperial Business School and a member of the school's Centre for Health Economics and Policy Innovation. James has worked on healthcare innovation issues for 25 years. He is particularly interested in the challenges innovators, companies and healthcare organisations face in ensuring their innovations become embedded in everyday practice and in the policy and other mechanisms to facilitate this. He has led many research projects in the UK and abroad, including extensive work on the development and introduction of remote care technologies such as telehealth. He also advises and consults for government, healthcare services, and organisations from the health technology and construction sectors. James is an associate director of research for Imperial Health Partners and a member of the management team for the NIHR Policy Innovation and Evaluation Research Unit. He also sits on several advisory boards, includ

Loy Lobo

Digital Health Strategist and Innovator at Wegyanik

Loy Lobo is an experienced innovator and leader in healthcare. Over the past decade, he has taken a number of healthcare innovations from concept to market. He has launched a UK social enterprise start-up in wellness and was the founder of the telehealth business at BT Global Health. In his last role at BT, he was the Director of Strategy and Innovation for Global Health. In 2014, Loy set up Wegyanik, a health innovation company that applies design thinking, digital technologies and decision sciences to create the health and care services we require now and for the future. Wegyanik is developing markets, scaling up innovations and influencing whole system change in health and care services. He is experienced in the application of systems thinking and simulation modelling and is applying these techniques to accountable care and value-based healthcare opportunities. Loy is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in London, where he serves on its Digital Health Council as Preside

Brendan Delaney

Programme Director, Chair in Medical Informatics and Decision-Making

Brendan Delaney works in the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London, based within the I-X Institute and the Institute of Global Health Innovation. With a pioneering career in clinical informatics for 22 years, he has led significant international programmes, including NIH’s ePrimary Care Network and the €9M TRANSFoRm initiative, to advance LHSs. His current research focuses on explainable AI in primary care, integrating machine learning with Electronic Health Record (EHR)-based clinical decision support. With over 350 publications to his credit, Professor Delaney also advises UK research councils and champions innovation, aiming to balance safety and collaboration across disciplines.

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José Rosário

Business Development Director – Open Programmes