Artificial intelligence will soon be taking over for doctors and nurses in a British hospital, ultimately diagnosing disease and identifying people at risk of illness, The Guardian reported.
University College London Hospitals revealed a three-year partnership with the Alan Turing Institute, which would bring machine learning to the forefront of the medical world.
Professor Bryan Williams, director of research at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said that in a world where people are able use AI to book a plane ticket or order a pizza from their phone, it made no sense that hospitals were so far behind that they were still sending out letters.
Turning to machine learning algorithms, experts will focus on disease diagnoses and detection while managing resources.
First on the list is the hospital's accident and emergency department, which is facing overcrowding — a problem not limited to hospitals in the U.K.
According to a previous study, emergency rooms in the U.S. are in crisis as they face overcrowding, delays and diversions.
Emergency room visits account for 11 percent of outpatient encounters, 28 percent of acute care visits, and 50 percent of hospital admissions.
Advanced technology could go a long way toward alleviating the congestion and speeding up turnover times.
At UCLH, Chief Executive Professor Marcel Levi noted that the hospital was falling short of its four-hour wait in the emergency room.
This, he said, was no reflection on the dedication and commitment of staff but rather "an indicator of some of the other things in the entire chain concerning the flow of acute patients in and out the hospital that are wrong," The Guardian noted.
Certain programs are able to accurately predict when a person who is seriously ill will die within three to 12 months.
This tool could play a role in improving the quality of life for patients and their families.
And while Levi assured that AI would never replace doctors, "the use of data, expertise and technology can radically change how we manage our services – for the better," The Guardian reported.
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