AI in healthcare: Using algorithms to predict your risk of ending up in hospital ZDNet

Imagine being able to check your health score like you might check you credit rating – that's the aim of a pioneering AI trial that wants to work out the likelihood of a patient being admitted to hospital. The pilot project is being run by Bering Research and GPs at Axbridge Surgery in Somerset. The project uses an algorithm in Bering's Brave AI system to analyse the complexity of patient health, to predict which patients might be at risk of needing to be admitted to hospital, and to help GPs to work to get that risk reduced. The AI tool presents its analysis in the form of a complexity score that is based on a percentage scale. The score is related to underlying health conditions and a range of contributory factors, such as high blood pressure or a history of smoking.