UCL and UCLH winners of NIHR AI in healthcare awards

• Dr Wai Keong Wong, Consultant Haematologist and Chief Research Information Officer at UCLH, and Dr Anoop Shah, Clinical Lecturer at the UCL Institute of Health Informatics and honorary consultant in Clinical Pharmacology and General Medicine, UCLH, will lead a project aiming to apply natural language processing for real-time data capture in electronic health records. Read more...
• Dr Laura Shallcross, Consultant in Public Health Medicine at the UCL Institute of Health Informatics, will lead a project aiming to use AI to combine historical data for patients prescribed with antibiotics with the findings of specialists in infection as they review prescriptions. Read more...
• Dr Steve Harris, Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesia at UCLH, will lead a project aiming to improve a model that predicts future demand for hospital beds, allowing local teams to adjust staffing levels or reschedule operations in line with future demand. Read more...

The AI in Health and Care Award, which will distribute £140m over three years, forms part of the NHS AI Lab and is managed by the Accelerated Access Collaborative in partnership with NHSX and the National Institute for Health Research.