I think that every place that we turn,
when walking into a hospital, we always,
or I always can find an
opportunity to innovate.
The more that we look outside
how we are using technology
and trying to apply it
in a rapid way and adopt it to healthcare,
it is going to make a huge impact.
We're kind of quite large
for a specialist children's
hospital. One of the largest
in Europe and we treat
over 300,000 patients.
We've got a long history and
a heritage in innovation.
And at the same time of
this, we were developing
what we call the Innovation Service,
which is one of the largest
or unique in the country.
Where we've got to right
now, is we have now placed AI
as one of our top three
strategic priorities.
Microsoft already have multiple projects
around the world using AI: in
imaging in data collection.
And we've been using
the Microsoft SQL server
with AI code, such as Python.
And we've been reporting
back to our clinical teams,
the results around how we
operate our emergency department.
So we built now a data science
algorithm, which is able
to learn from the data and
to predict how many patients
at different severity levels
- how critically ill they are,
how many will need admission that day.
And we've been able to
model that through now.
So we can predict forward in
a dynamic way using Power BI,
how our beds are gonna
fluctuate during the week.
But there were a long
pipeline of problem statements
that we're hoping to take forward.
With the amount of information generated
in the last few years of data,
it is vital that data is not wasted
and use it for the purpose.
And there's only a level of capacity
that a human can absorb.
And by taking the
technologies that are found
in machines, we can enhance
and we can do things
to a higher degree than
we could ever do before.
It's something we've got
to do quite thoughtfully to
really make sure we've got the
right ethics and governance
and process and standard
operating procedures.
Microsoft is an outstanding organization.
They provide such an integrated platform.
everything from Azure,
the Internet of Things,
the Machine Learning.
So I think Microsoft's
going to be critical
to the healthcare space.
And I think together, we
could have a huge impact
for the benefit of large
populations across the globe.