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. \nDevelopment of the London SDE is informed by the \nOneLondon\n 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.\nThe 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.\nThe 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.\nThe 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. \nAs 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.

£1.8m funding to extend London's healthcare AI technologies and capabilities

The substantial grant by the Office for Life Sciences will enable the AI Centre's programme of artificial intelligence research within the NHS. The \nLondon Medical Imaging & AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare\n has today been awarded a £16 million DHSC grant by the Office for Life Sciences to enable its programme of artificial intelligence research within the NHS to provide more innovative and accessible healthcare solutions to the public.\nAI Centre Director, \nProfessor Reza Razavi\n said the grant facilitates the Centre’s use of data and clinical research expertise.\n“The AI Centre can continue its mission to spearhead innovations in AI-driven healthcare that will have significant impact on the clinical, research and broader community. Artificial intelligence technology provides significant opportunities to improve diagnostics and therapies as well as reduce administrative costs."

AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare

£1.8m funding to extend London's healthcare AI technologies and capabilities

£16m grant awarded to the AI Centre to grow NHS AI capabilities