Old Dominion University AI in Healthcare Online Certificate

This is Old Dominion's AI certificate for people who work with health information, from clinic staff to analysts. It is 12 credits, entirely online, and finishes with a practicum that produces a paper or e-portfolio. Tuition runs $662 a credit out of state and $672 for Virginia residents.

AI in Healthcare is a graduate certificate delivered online through ODUGlobal at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. It is the health-focused option among the seven AI certificates the school offers online.

The four courses named on the page are AI Methods and Models, AI Ethics and Policy, Trustworthy Health Analytics, and AI Applications in Healthcare. The ethics course and the trustworthy analytics course are a good sign for this field, since mistakes in health data affect real patients and rules about its use are strict.

The full rubric is on the methodology page.

The program is fully online and asynchronous, with no scheduled meeting times according to the page, which helps if you work shifts in a health setting. Each course is an accelerated 8-week session, there are 3 starts a year, and a one-year finish is possible.

Pace is the cost. Eight weeks of reading and assignments next to a clinical or analytics job takes planning. Pick a start date away from your organization's heaviest stretch, such as open enrollment or a system upgrade.

Who It Fits

• You work in a hospital, clinic, insurance company or public health office and keep running into AI tools.
• You analyze health data and want to understand how to judge whether a model can be trusted.
• You want a final piece of work, because the practicum produces a paper or e-portfolio.

Who Should Skip It

• You want to practice medicine or earn a clinical license. This certificate does not claim to lead to either.
• You want to build machine learning models from scratch. The data science certificate is more technical.
• You work outside health and would rather see AI applied to your own industry. ODU has options for business, supply chain, security and education.

The first two courses, AI Methods and Models and AI Ethics and Policy, set the groundwork. Then comes Trustworthy Health Analytics, which suggests a focus on whether health data and the results drawn from it can be relied on.

The last named course, AI Applications in Healthcare, is where the field-specific work happens. After that you complete the practicum. Ask whether you can base your paper or e-portfolio on a problem from your workplace, and whether you will work with real or sample data, since the way your project is set up changes what you can show an employer.

Courses the School Names

• AI Methods and Models
• AI Ethics and Policy
• Trustworthy Health Analytics
• AI Applications in Healthcare

Old Dominion charges $672 a credit hour to Virginia residents and $662 a credit hour to students from other states, effective Fall 2026. Twelve credits add up to $8,064 for residents and $7,944 for non-residents.

Hospitals and health systems with tuition benefits may cover a short certificate, so ask before applying. Because the school's page gives tuition only, request a fee list as well. If an employer is paying, find out what minimum grade earns reimbursement.

12 credits at $662 a credit comes to $7,944 in tuition, before fees. At the in-state rate of $672, the same 12 credits come to $8,064.

The credential is a graduate certificate from Old Dominion University, a public school in Norfolk. School-wide federal data list a 46% graduation rate and a 90% admit rate, which are not results for this program.

Contact the program office about what you need to apply and whether credits count toward a degree, and keep the answers in writing.

Where this degree can lead: Data Scientist Jobs, Jobs You Can Get With an AI Degree.

• It does not tie into a named health information credential, so it works as a learning step more than a license.
• Compressed 8-week courses leave little room to catch up during busy times at work.
• It does not describe the data or software you will use, so ask whether you will get hands-on practice.

• What are the admission requirements, and do I need a health or technical background?
• What does Trustworthy Health Analytics cover, and does it include hands-on analysis?
• How is the practicum structured, and can I base it on my own workplace?
• Will I work with real or sample health data, and who supplies it?
• Can these credits count toward a degree at ODU later?
• What fees are added to the $672 or $662 per-credit price?

ODUGlobal delivers graduate certificates in AI through its School of Data Science and School of Cybersecurity in asynchronous 8-week courses.

• Best AI Certificate Programs Rank 13 of 54, graduate certificate
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