NHS Digital tests machine learning for hospitals' Covid-19 response UKAuthority

Trials have begun of a system using machine learning to predict the approaching demand across England for intensive care beds and ventilators for patients with Covid-19. NHS Digital said the Covid-19 Capacity Planning and Analysis System (CPAS) has been developed by its data scientists and researchers from the University of Cambridge, using data from Public Health England (PHE) and aimed at supporting hospitals in their planning. It has been built on the Cambridge Adjutorium machine learning engine, developed by a Cambridge team led by Professor Mihaela van de Schaar and which has already been used to obtain insights on cardiovascular disease and cystic fibrosis. It is using data collected by PHE's 19 Covid-19 Hospitalisation in England Surveillance System (CHESS). Alpha stage trials have begun at four hospitals.