Health Leadership in the Age of AI
Transforming Health and Healthcare with AI.
Health Leadership in the Age of AI Course Overview
The Centre for Digital Transformation of Health and Bastas Academy for Health Leadership are hosting a short course on Health Leadership in the Age of AI, focused on transforming health and healthcare with AI.
Data, digital, and AI are becoming relevant to every executive portfolio. This course equips health leaders to make sound strategic, operational, and ethical decisions as digital intelligence increasingly shapes healthcare.
Moving beyond AI literacy, the course develops the judgement and practical capabilities leaders need to shape enterprise strategy and transformation in the AI era - including understanding data and digital foundations, assessing organisational readiness, setting strategy, implementing and governing AI-enabled transformation, leading workforce change, evaluating impact, and creating sustainable value.
Participants will apply these capabilities across clinical, clinical-adjacent, and non-clinical use cases within the realities of the Australian health system, regulatory environment, and funding context.
Find out more about The Centre for Digital Transformation of Health.
Who Should Attend Health Leadership in the Age of AI?
Senior Health Executives
- CEOs, COOs, CMOs, CIOs & other senior executives across hospitals & health services.
- Shaping enterprise strategy, investment & governance in the AI era.
- No technical background required.
Divisional and Operational Leaders
- Directors & senior managers evaluating or overseeing digital & AI-enabled transformation.
- Responsible for a specific service, department, or organisation.
- Need practical leadership & decision frameworks, not technical depth.
Strategy and Digital Health Leaders
- Shaping organisational digital intelligence or AI policy, strategy, or innovation agenda.
- Leading digital transformation, governance, or data infrastructure.
- Leading technology vendor and partnership decisions.
Health Leadership in the Age of AI Key Takeaways
Understand Practical Capabilities and Constraints Across Data, Digital, and AI
- Know the key strengths, dependencies, and limitations — including where AI cannot explain its own decisions, drifts in accuracy over time, or where AI generates convincing but false information (hallucination) — to ask sharper questions of vendors and teams.
Align Digital Intelligence with Organisational Strategy
- Distinguish which problems are best addressed with digital intelligence; make disciplined investment and partnership choices under uncertainty; and prioritise a portfolio of opportunities based on strategic value, feasibility, evidence, risk and total cost.
Assess Organisational Readiness
- Evaluate data and digital infrastructure readiness, as well as organisational capability, before committing to AI deployment.
Design Evaluation and Value Measurement Systems
- Track outcomes, AI performance, workforce impact, equity, financial sustainability, and health-system value after go-live.
Establish Governance Structures
- Define accountability, oversight, and risk management across the AI lifecycle.
Lead Implementation and Workflow Redesign
- Integrate digital intelligence into real work to reduce unnecessary human effort and meet strategic goals; redesign workflows, roles, and responsibilities; and support adoption and implementation at scale.
Lead Workforce Engagement
- Build trust and address changes to roles, professional identity and ways of working.
Navigate Vendors, Procurement, and Partnerships
- Evaluate vendor claims, evidence, data governance, integration requirements, and contractual safeguards to inform procurement and partnership decisions.
Health Leadership in the Age of AI Topics Covered
Data, Digital and AI Foundations for Health Leaders
Strategy and Leadership Under Uncertainty
Data and Digital Infrastructure Readiness
Governance, Safety, and Accountability
Financial Sustainability and Value
Implementation and Workflow Redesign
Ongoing Evaluation, Learning, and Value
Workforce Engagement and Trust
Equity, Consumers and Community Trust
Portfolio Prioritisation and Investment
Vendor Procurement and Partnership Management
Upcoming Sessions
This is a non-residential course. The course fee covers tuition and meals during the workshop.
Health Leadership in the Age of AI is delivered in partnership with the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health. Because of this joint arrangement, BAHL scholarships do not apply to this course.
2027 Application Close Dates:
Cohort 1 - 11 Mar 2027
Prices Ex GST.
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