DHSC News 8 August 2019
- A new National Artificial Intelligence Lab will use the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the health and lives of patients.
- The AI Lab will bring together the industry’s best academics, specialists and technology companies to work on some of the biggest challenges in health and care, including earlier cancer detection, new dementia treatments and more personalised care.
- The lab will sit within NHSX, the new organisation that will oversee the digitisation of the health and care system, in partnership with the Accelerated Access Collaborative.
- Among other things the AI Lab’s work could:
- use predictive models to better estimate future needs of beds, drugs, devices or surgeries
- identify which patients could be more easily treated in the community, reducing the pressure on the NHS and helping patients receive treatment closer to home
- identify patients most at risk of diseases such as heart disease or dementia, allowing for earlier diagnosis and cheaper, more focused, personalised prevention
- build systems to detect people at risk of post-operative complications, infections or requiring follow-up from clinicians, improving patient safety and reducing readmission rates
