14:00 – 15:15

Artificial intelligence (AI) offers an opportunity to radically change health and social care, and whilst it is a young but rapidly maturing field, Scotland is already realising the potential with a developing infrastructure to ensure the technology is viable and can be properly embedded into clinical practice.

The Scottish Health and Industry Partnership has established an AI Hub that will be a cornerstone element for delivering the life sciences element of Scotland’s AI strategy which aims to pull all of the sectors together to build a national capability.

The Scottish Ambulance Service is investigating the use of AI and machine learning in Ambulance Control Centres (ACCs) to recognise critically ill and deteriorating patients.  This will also help inform staff decision making in line with Scottish Ambulance Service strategic aims of patient safety, staff welfare and maximising resources during the (COVID-19) pandemic.

Delegates attending this session will hear more about how this work cuts across transformation, innovation, patient safety, and staff welfare by using algorithms in order to reduce the cogitative overload on ambulance control centre staff during times of immense pressure through working with industry business partners to come up with a solution that could also be used across other services.