And, it’s not something that is in the distant future, either. A major London hospital, University College Hospital, in Bloomsbury is to take data from thousands of patients and use it to scrutinise why emergency waiting times are being missed, and to assess the records of patients to identify the 20 percent who are at risk of deteriorating.
Part of the NHS’s elite Shelford Group of trusts, University College Hospital is working with the Alan Turing Institute, which is located in nearby Kings Cross, to enable doctors to make safer and more accurate decisions. As one of the professors involved in the project said, “Imagine a world where we could use AI to rule out diseases, suggest treatment plans or predict behaviours.”
The move comes after the Government announced additional investment in AI and will see workshops, run at the hospital, determining how best to analyse and use the data generated from patients.
AI revolutionising healthcare? Early days, but this development certainly provides a real opportunity to use AI to transform the delivery of healthcare, providing patients with much improved levels of care whilst promising to save the NHS money through better planning and the intelligent allocation of limited resources.
