University College London Hospital (UCLH) and the Alan Turing Institute in London have entered a three-year partnership to allow artificial intelligence (AI) to perform a variety clinical tasks otherwise done by nurses and physicians.
The goal of the partnership is to allow machine learning algorithms to help in diagnosing disease, identifying at-risk patients and directing resources, according to an article published May 21 by The Guardian.
"Under the new partnership, algorithms will be trained on the hospital’s own servers to avoid any such breaches and private companies will not be involved," said Chris Holmes, PhD, director of health at the Alan Turing Institute.
Projects include improving the hospital's emergency department to better meet government waiting-time targets, identifying the rate of patient no-shows and using machine learning to analyze CT scans of 25,000 former smokers who are being recruited for an NHS clinical trial.
“Machines will never replace doctors, but the use of data, expertise and technology can radically change how we manage our services—for the better,” Marcel Levi, MD, PhD, chief executive at UCLH, told The Guardian.
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