pharmaphorum May 11, 2021
Joined up thinking is the key to converting AI-driven advances into real benefits for healthcare systems, say NHSX.
Healthcare systems the world over have been facing the same challenges for some time – and the pandemic has only served to compound them.
Aging populations, a growing number of people living with long-term conditions, and dwindling resources meant the NHS was already being asked to do more with less before COVID-19 hit.
Now, on top of pre-existing skills gaps and funding shortages, it faces record-breaking waiting lists, and a race to understand and cater for people with an erstwhile unknown disease.
NHSX believes artificial intelligence (AI) could hold at least part of the answer – but where are we right now,...