Innovate UK has awarded more than £300,000 in funding to a collaboration between the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Sustainable Innovation and UK healthtech company Sanome, to accelerate the development of an AI-enabled system for the early detection of hospital-acquired infections. The 18-month SMART grant will support the co-design and roll-out of MEMORI, a Class IIb CE-certified software-as-a-medical-device (SaMD) platform that analyses real-time clinical data to predict infection risk up to seven days before symptoms appear.
Maintaining medical records for tens of millions of people in the UK has become a colossal administrative challenge for the NHS. A recent trial of 's AI-driven healthcare tool Dragon Copilot has improved efficiency and enhanced the doctor-patient relationship. One of the essential responsibilities for clinicians (healthcare professionals, such as a doctor or nurse, who provide direct patient care) is accurate record-taking. This adds a substantial administrative burden to each consultation and takes up a considerable amount of time.