Level-Up. Build Capacity. Not Dependency
Our expert-led development programs are designed for healthcare leaders who need to lead, evaluate, and champion AI within their organizations. Structured, hands-on, and built specifically for the realities of healthcare. All programs are designed for practical competency and result in a certificate and micro-credential badge.
AI in HealthCare: Leadership Essentials – Fundamentals [Jan - Mar 2026]
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SmartSigma AI teamed up with the American College of Healthcare Executives South East Texas Chapter to bring an AI essentials course. Participants will earn ACHE Qualifying Credits, 2 digital badges and a Micro-credential from SmartSigma AI. While registration is closed, feel free to learn more about the cohort learning outcomes.
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Outcome-Driven
Every program ends with a tangible deliverable — an implementation plan, a business case, or a governance framework you can take back to your organization.
Healthcare Specific
Not generic AI courses repackaged for healthcare. The curriculum, case studies, and projects are built around the regulatory, operational, and clinical realities you actually face.
Credentialed & Recognized
Earn certificates, digital badges, and qualifying credits through partnerships with recognized healthcare leadership organizations.
Current Offering
AI in Healthcare: Leadership Essentials — Fundamentals
10 Virtual Sessions · Jan 14 – Mar 25, 2026 ACHE-SETC Partnership
Description: A comprehensive certificate program for healthcare administrators and emerging leaders. You'll move beyond understanding AI in the abstract and build a complete, real-world AI implementation plan tailored to a use case within your own organization.
Key Outcomes:
✓ Evaluate, design, and oversee AI initiatives within your organization
✓ Develop a full business case including ROI modeling and stakeholder alignment
✓ Build a complete implementation roadmap with governance and change management
✓ Navigate clinical, ethical, regulatory, and operational AI risks
✓ Earn a certificate, 2 digital badges, and up to 10 ACHE qualifying credits
Investment
AI in Healthcare: Leadership Essentials — Fundamentals
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ACHE Member: $450 Non-Member: $650 (with note: $200 rebate if you join ACHE)
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Student / Early Career: $250​
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Registration (Closed) → https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/2026-achesetc-ai-healthcare​
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In partnership with ACHE – Southeast Texas Chapter → https://ache-setc.org
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Paricipant Value:
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Level Up in a Hot Area
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ACHE - SETC Certificate
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ACHE - SETC Digital badge
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SmartSigma AI Digital badge
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Up to 10 hours of qualifying ACHE credits
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SmartSigma AI Microcredential
Upcoming Programs
AI in Healthcare: Scaling & Optimization
6 Virtual Sessions - [2nd Quarter 2026]
Dates: May 6 - June 10, 2026
Pre-requisite: Experience in AI Implementation, Course work in the area, AI in Healthcare: Leadership Essentials — Fundamentals
Description: AI in Healthcare: Scaling & Optimization is the advanced Level 2 course from SmartSigma AI and ACHE-SETC. It is designed for healthcare leaders who are ready to move from implementation into sustained, measurable AI performance. This course is built around the SmartSigma AI Optimization Model — a proprietary framework developed specifically for the realities of healthcare AI — that integrates three disciplines into a single, coherent approach to scaling AI responsibly and effectively.
Participants leave with the a governance-ready AI Optimization and Scaling roadmap. Graduates receive a certificate and microcredential.
Space is limited | Registration Opens in early April 2026
Summer 1 Cohort 2026
AI & Patient Safety:
Digital Literacy for Healthcare Quality and Safety
4 Virtual Sessions
June 2026 4, 11, 18, 25
Pre-requisite: None
Description: Healthcare organizations are deploying clinical AI algorithms faster than the quality and safety infrastructure around them is evolving. Quality directors, patient safety officers, and clinical quality leaders are being handed oversight responsibility for tools they were never trained to evaluate.
You will complete the course knowing how clinical AI works, how it fails, what to monitor, and what responsible governance looks like - whether your organization has one algorithm or twenty.
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This is not a technology course. It is a patient safety course.
Who This Course is For
Quality directors, patient safety officers, accreditation and compliance leaders, clinical quality managers, and healthcare executives responsible for AI oversight in their organizations.
No technical background required.
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Registration opens May 1, 2026.
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Summer 2 Cohort
Clinical AI Compliance and Risk:
Governance for Healthcare
4 Virtual Sessions
July 9, 16, 23, 30
Pre-requisite: None
Description: Clinical AI is no longer emerging. It is deployed — and it carries federal regulatory obligations, liability exposure, and governance requirements that most healthcare organizations are not yet equipped to meet.
You will finish this course with a clear, structured understanding of where your organization stands against current regulatory requirements — and what needs to happen next.
This is not an AI strategy course. It is a compliance and risk course for the leaders who are accountable when something goes wrong.
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Who This Course Is For
Healthcare compliance officers, risk managers, legal counsel, administrative leaders, and executives responsible for AI governance and regulatory accountability in their organizations. No technical background required.
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Registration opens June 1, 2026.
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