This exciting collaboration between the London AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare and the London Sub National Secure Data Environment will support technical and research innovation as a London-wide network of excellence is developed. Over the two-year programme, the project will create pathways to translate this innovation into tangible benefits for patients across the region.
- Professor Sebastien Ourselin FREng FMedSci, Director of the London Artificial Intelligence Centre for Value Based Healthcare and Director of Kings Health Partners Digital Health Hub
03 September 2024
£1.8m funding to extend London's healthcare AI technologies and capabilities
The London Artificial Intelligence Centre for Value Based Healthcare (AI4VBH) has been allocated £1.8m by the London Secure Data Environment (SDE) from funding it receives from NHS England. The AI4VBH is part of King’s Health Partners (KHP) Digital Health Hub.
Development of the London SDE is informed by the OneLondon Health Data programme, a collaboration of the five London Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), NHS London and other partners. The OLHD programme’s role is to create the digital and data infrastructure across London that supports safe and integrated care, deep system understanding and intelligence, and innovation through research and development.
The AI4VBH is a national consortium jointly led by King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, focused on applied data science and AI. The Centre operates technology platforms enabling data enrichment, federated analytics, and the deployment of machine learning tools, as well as expertise in health data and advanced analytics.
The AI4VBH consortium will bring together its data, infrastructure, technology, and expertise, to enhance the London SDE and deliver a cycle of continual benefits to the regional healthcare system.
The collaboration will also add to the existing valuable partnerships between NHS, academia, and industry, required for the London SDE to become self-sustaining as part of the NHS Research SDE Network, and re-invest to grow NHS data capabilities over time.
As the London ICBs environments share a common data model, any pipelines created in collaboration with one ICB can be adapted and used for any other ICB (or deployed across multiple environments to create pan-London insights). This will also facilitate the use of shared terminologies, and the validation of NHS-owned machine learning models across regions.
Using AI alongside our Six Safes framework for safe access to data will ensure that we are meeting the expectations set out by the public in our multiple deliberations to ensure de-personalised information is joined up to support proactive care, planning and research. We are looking forward to demonstrating the positive impact this will have on Londoners, helping to make the capital the healthiest city in the world.
Luke Readman, Regional Director of Digital Transformation, NHSE London
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