AI is being leveraged in a bid to try and revolutionise the NHS. Under a new partnership between University College London Hospitals (UCLH) and the Alan Turing Institute, doctors will be replaced by artificial intelligence in some instances, in an attempt to build efficiency.
Under the new scheme, AI could be responsible for diagnosing cancer on CT scans and deciding which A&E patients are seen first, among other things, at one of the UK’s largest hospitals.
The aim of the partnership is to apply ‘game-changing’ benefits of machine learning to the NHS on a previously unprecedented scale.
The director of research at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Prof Bryan Williams, told The Guardian the move was “going to be a game-changer.” ...