A new online advice service to help the NHS and wider care system adopt and make use of new digital and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has been launched.
The AI and Digital Regulations Service provides guidance for NHS and social care adopters and digital health innovators. The service offers:
- A website providing centralised, curated and up-to-date regulatory content for both developers and adopters of AI and data-driven technologies; and
- Access to specialist support for both developers and adopters from the service partners.
The service is a multi-agency collaboration between the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the Care Quality Commission, the Health Research Authority and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and is funded by the NHS AI Lab.
By collating information from all four organisations in one place, the site provides comprehensive guidance at each stage of the adoption pathway. The service can also respond to individual enquiries, making connections with relevant services or system partners.
Mark Chapman, interim director of medical technology at NICE, said: “This service will help developers and the NHS come together to effectively deploy impactful AI and digital technologies. It provides useful and useable guidance on how to identify, pilot and rollout such technologies.”
Dominic Cushnan, Director of AI, Imaging and Deployment, NHS England, added: “This crucial service couldn’t come at a better time as discussions about regulating AI are progressing rapidly. The NHS AI Lab brought the regulatory agencies together to clarify and simplify the developer and adopter journey so we can support the NHS to embed the most effective digital technologies within clinical pathways and enable best practice so these tools are used safely and effectively."
