A partnership between the Artificial Intelligence Center for Value-Based Healthcare, King’s College London, and Guy’s and St Thomas’ National Health Service Foundation Trusts aimed at accelerating the implementation and delivery of radiology AI has partnered with Deepc to provide access to six trusts of NHS.
BECAUSE ITS VERY IMPORTANT
Around 133,000 scans are carried out every day in the UK, but the NHS is facing a 29% shortage of medical professionals to analyze the images, according to an announcement from Deepc, an AI technology supplier.
Delays directly affect patient outcomes, including longer hospital stays and increased risk of serious complications.
Also, although radiology AI has long been used to increase the number of scans health systems can analyze and improve the accuracy of diagnoses, few NHS patients have benefited because deploying radiology AI in clinical settings has been too expensive and technically difficult – at best. and legacy IT systems, according to the company.
Deepc said in an announcement on Thursday that it will provide access to the first six NHS sites and also give radiology departments that are not commissioned access to more than 75 approved AI tools.
The first NHS trusts to deploy DeepcOS will be Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust and East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation. Believe it.
AI4VBH wants to promote the development of AI technology within the national health system to better accommodate them, according to Sebastien Ourselin, director of the center.
“Our partnership with Deepc will begin by helping six NHS trusts access over 75 AI-enabled devices – but this is just the beginning,” he said.
The company said that through a single integration that covers data privacy, security, control, procurement, integration, delivery and service, health systems can quickly deploy radiology AI and help reduce patient wait times, help clinicians make faster diagnoses and help relieve stress. in NHS radiology departments.
The current partnership will extend to 10 trusts, Deepc said.
Last month, AI4VBH was awarded £1.8 million in NHS England funding to partner with the London Secure Data Environment, the city’s network, for a two-year AI contract.
GREAT EVENTS
In 2021, the UK government has invested £36 million to advance AI research for NHS projects to improve care and improve the speed of lung cancer diagnosis. Then two years ago, NHS researchers announced that they had used a COVID-19 chest scan to assess the accuracy of health and care systems.
They have developed a prototype AI trial plan to pave the way for AI safety in the UK. Using the model, the NHS also released an AI tool that it said could detect heart attacks in 20 seconds.
Dr. Sonya Babu-Narayan, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, called it “a great advance for doctors and patients” and said it changed the heart MRI image analysis.
He was medical director of the Barts Heart Center at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, which was one of three hospitals to trial the technology before it became available to the NHS.
“This epidemic has caused hundreds of thousands of people to wait for cardiac screening, treatment and care,” he said. Healthcare IT News.
“Despite the delay in cardiac care, when people are still on the waiting list, they are at risk of disability and death. That is why it is encouraging to see innovations like this, which together can help diagnose heart disease early and reduce the work that we will have to do in the future. give more heart patients of NHS best care in the near future.”
ON THE RECORD
“By working together, we can make the NHS a real leader in the effective use of AI, ultimately delivering benefits to our patients,” said Ourselin.
Andrea Fox is the editor-in-chief of Healthcare IT News.
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