As the UK election race hots up and the challenges of the NHS come back into the limelight, the NHSX have produced a report detailing the incorporation of AI into the service and what impacts this could have.

The NHS is of crucial concern to a great proportion of the UK economy, and hence the developments of technology which improve the services and increase its staff capabilities are of equally crucial importance. Figure 3 shows exactly where the use of AI will come into effect, with diagnosis of illness consisting almost 50% of the total usage, highlighting the advancements in image recognition machine learning and the standardised digital format of data inputs for a range of diagnoses.

NHS employment of AI years data analysis

Despite the upsides present, it must be noted that the role out of newer technologies won’t happen instantaneously. A quarter of the proposed products are ‘very likely’ to be introduced to the NHS in the next year, but it will take at least 5 years for the great majority to be incorporated.

Some other facts from the report include:

19% of AI solutions are being developed on algorithmically generated datasets (machines gaining insights from processes and using these insights to make further decisions about products)
44% of all GDHP members have a national or regional policy framework for the development and/or deployment of AI

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