Artificial intelligence and automation
Grand challenges
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- In-hospital care
- Remote care
- Genomics and precision medicine
Advanced digital technologies can improve the efficiency, accuracy and quality of clinical care and business processes.
We are leading the way in the development, testing, and evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI) through our clinical scientific computing team and AI centre which is a collaboration with King's College London.
Our ability to provide secure access to anonymised patient data to develop and test AI in clinical environments makes us unique.
We're also building a Centre of Excellence for Automation. We'll be using technologies such as robotic process automation and Microsoft's Power Platform to automate tasks that we normally do manually. This will gives staff more time to focus on delivering and improving patient care.
Case studies
We saved the homecare pharmacy team at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals 22 hours a week by automating 85% of their invoicing process.
Before this each invoice was manually processed by a member of the team. This took about 7 minutes. The time to process an invoice has reduced to 3 minutes by using robotic process automation to input data.
This allows staff to spend more time on patient-focused tasks, such as following up with patients who have missed medicines deliveries.
With demand for their services growing, automation has allowed the team to deliver, without extra staff.
Contact us to explore how technology can support you in your daily tasks.
Getting a clear enough picture of an unborn baby in the womb to help understand what care it needs can be tricky if it moves around during the MRI scan.
Our team of data scientists, academics and clinicians from Guy's and St Thomas' and King's College London are using AI to help generate highly detailed 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstructions of fetal organs.
This technology was first used for taking images of the baby's brain. It is now used for body and heart MRIs as well.
Our team will soon be making the workflow available through AIDE. They are also looking at ways it can be used at other NHS trusts.
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