Thirty-eight new pioneering AI projects have been announced to help revolutionise care and accelerate diagnosis….reports Asian Lite News.
Thousands of patients and NHS staff will benefit from dozens of new pioneering projects awarded a share of £36 million to test state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology.
The projects will help the NHS to transform the quality of care and the speed of diagnoses for conditions such as lung cancer.
At CogX Festival, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced the winners of the second wave of the NHS AI Lab’s AI in Health and Care Award.
Thirty-eight new pioneering AI projects have been announced to help revolutionise care and accelerate diagnosis.
Already over 17,000 stroke patients and over 25,000 patients with diabetes or high blood pressure have benefited from the first round of the AI in Health and Care Award since September, where £50 million was given to 42 AI technologies.
“AI has the potential to completely revolutionise every part of how we approach healthcare, from how we diagnose diseases and the speed at which our doctors and nurses deliver treatments to how we support people’s mental health,” Hancock said.
“The 38 projects we are backing reflect the UK’s trailblazing approach to innovation in the healthcare sector, and could help us take a leap forward in the quality of care and the speed of disease diagnoses and treatment in the NHS,” he said.
“Confronted with this global pandemic, our tech sector has risen to the challenge and upended how we do things through innovations to support people to test from home, complete remote consultations and diagnose issues safely,” he added.
Sir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England said, “Through our NHS AI Lab we’re now backing a new generation of ground-breaking but practical solutions to some of the biggest challenges in healthcare. Precision cancer diagnosis, accurate surgery, and new ways of offering mental health support are just a few of the promising real world patient benefits. Because as the NHS comes through the pandemic, rather than a return to old ways, we’re supercharging a more innovative future.”
The AI in Health and Care Award aims to accelerate the testing and evaluation of AI in the NHS so patients can benefit from faster and more personalised diagnosis and greater efficiency in screening services.
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