University collaboration to explore tech and AI in healthcare

Aston University and Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust are collaborating to explore how digital technology, big data and artificial intelligence can revolutionise healthcare.

The University’s Engineering for Health Research Centre  co-hosted the Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust Innovation Summit, which brought together tech firms, healthcare professionals and academics to discuss how new technology can benefit paediatric and women’s healthcare and the young people’s mental health sector.

Representatives from Hitachi, KPMG and the West Midlands Academic Health Science Network (WMAHSN) attended the event at Conference Aston.

Amanda Baugh, head of innovation at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust said: “The event brought together professionals from different disciplines to foster collaboration and springboard ideas on the future of healthcare.

“We want to get a wide range of experts in one place to explore and define challenges and set out plans about how we can adapt and adopt existing technology, products and devices, along with how we might develop products and solutions not currently available to meet these challenges.”