babylon's artificial intelligence is put to test (and it outperformed clinicians in triaging patients)

This week, in a public test, we put the Triage capability of babylon's new AI function to test against some of the UK's top triage nurses and junior doctors. Professor Irwin Nazareth, The Academic Doctoral Research Committee Chair of the Health Education England and NIHR examined one of Britain's most senior A&E nurses, an Oxford-educated Junior Doctor and babylon's new'Check' feature to see who provided the most accurate and fastest triage assessment in front of the UK's top consumer, health and technology media. This was a live demonstration of an extensive set of tests published in an academic research paper, that showed babylon's'Check'feature to be safe in 100% of cases, 13% more accurate than a doctor, 17% more accurate than a nurse, and performing significantly faster 89% of the time. "Check a Symptom" is already the most popular feature on the babylon app. In the UK alone, it has been used around 20,000 times in just three weeks (that is about 3% of the usage of nhs 111 nationally in the same period).