Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Advances

The Lab will investigate how to employ AI for the benefit of patients, whether this be through the deployment of current AI approaches, the development of new technologies, or the testing of their safety, with the government putting £250 million into the project. The project will, among other things, try to provide an early cancer diagnosis. More than 50,000 additional people may benefit from early cancer detection, increasing the likelihood of survival. More precisely, research has demonstrated that AI can identify brain tumor tissue more quickly than a pathologist.Positive ripple effects would result from this in other areas as well, like allowing money to be saved that would have been used for more treatment and lowering the workload of staff (at a time when there is a crisis in NHS workforce numbers).