Our Research
Our research projects range from solving today’s challenges to preparing for tomorrow’s opportunities. Some of these AI technologies are already here, and others are still being invented. We aim to ensure that they are safe, effective, equitable and inclusive, sustainable, with good technical performance and affordable to the health system.
Identification of need
We help Innovators know what to build, by helping the NHS ‘demand signal’, saying what patients and the NHS needs and are willing to pay for.
Design
We help Innovators know how to design their products to meet the needs of patients, health professionals and the wider NHS.
Technical development
We help regulators address technical aspects of AI development, and help them ensure their processes balance the unique opportunities and risks.
Pre-market evaluation
We work with innovators and regulators to design efficient but robust systems of evaluation to check the product is ready for routine use.
Post-market surveillance
We design ways to assess that a product is continuing to work safely.
Product updates or withdrawal
We help innovators and the NHS decide when to replace a product, and how to do so safely.
To maximise the benefit to society,
you need to not just do research, but to do it well.
Prof Doug Altman
