Text Mining to Improve the Health of Millions of Citizens

The same research group at UCL is also working with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (https://www.nice.org.uk/) in the U.K., which provides health care delivery guidance across the U.K. National Health Service (NHS) for more than 65 million people. The processes and technologies are similar – to use AI to build research'surveillance' systems – and this time they will be used to update clinical guidelines. This work is deployed to hundreds of researchers worldwide through the EPPI Reviewer cloud service, which runs on Azure, using the APIs deployed through Azure ML. It will directly speed up adoption of new health care interventions at national and international scale, for example, by facilitating the clearing of new drugs for widespread use across the NHS. The result is that decisions about which interventions are best will be faster and more reliable, thanks to Microsoft's intelligent cloud.