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.
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.
We help Innovators know how to design their products to meet the needs of patients, health professionals and the wider NHS.
We help regulators address technical aspects of AI development, and help them ensure their processes balance the unique opportunities and risks.
We work with innovators and regulators to design efficient but robust systems of evaluation to check the product is ready for routine use.
We design ways to assess that a product is continuing to work safely.
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