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EMEA Edition

Field note · NHS trust · clinical AI

By Dr Maliha Javed·AI Consultant, HealthTech

Manchester·

When the consultant said no

A field note from a teaching hospital where the recommended AI deployment was paused on the principal's advice.

You will read the four reasons the principal recommended pause and the two months of additional clinical-evidence work the trust commissioned instead.

The trust came back to deployment six months later with a smaller scope and a stronger case. The smaller case has now run for two years without a clinical incident.

If the case is poor, the most expensive thing you can do is to win the engagement.
From the editor's letter

We will not pretend AI is the right answer for a problem it does not fit. We have walked away from work where the case was poor. We will publish those notes too.