🇬🇧 Innovation in the UK: 5 Stories This Month Highlight Both the Focus of the NHS in Applying Artificial Intelligence and Its Potential in Improving Care>>
🤖Scientists supported by NHS Scotland, will analyze 1.6 million brain scans using AI to develop tools that predict dementia risk. This initiative, part of the global NEURii project, will link CT and MRI images with health records to identify patterns, aiding early diagnosis and accelerating the development of more precise treatments for dementia
🤖An NHS England study suggests that autonomous AI could significantly accelerate skin cancer diagnosis and reduce wait times. The research evaluated the AI tool DERM from Skin Analytics, used in skin cancer pathways, which showed a 99.8% accuracy in ruling out melanoma, surpassing traditional dermatologist evaluations (featured in post image)
🤖An NHS England-backed AI partnership with Deep Medical could save Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust £28 million annually by reducing missed appointments by nearly a third. Following a successful pilot, the AI solution is being expanded, allowing 100,000-150,000 more patients to be seen, with plans to roll it out to ten more NHS trusts.
🤖AI could help GPs identify high-risk heart patients, potentially easing NHS pressures. The Optimise system, trained on health records from over two million people, identified 74% of those who later died from heart conditions. Early trials led to improved treatment, with researchers aiming for earlier interventions to reduce heart-related deaths and hospital admissions.
🤖An AI assistant, Dora, developed by Ufonia, is helping ease pressure on the NHS by providing a faster, more efficient service for cataract care. Dora calls patients before and after surgery to assess their condition, identifying and prioritizing those needing further clinical attention. In the past year, it made over 12,000 calls
💬While AI won’t be a silver bullet to solve the NHS's multitude of challenges in bureaucracy, inefficiency, process issues, interoperability, and patient experience, it is promising to see these efforts making significant progress
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