deepc and AI Centre for Value-Based Healthcare enter a partnership

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deepc, the company behind the leading AI operating system for radiologists and enterprise clinical organisations, has announced a strategic partnership with the AI Centre for Value-Based Healthcare (AI4VBH), King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust to accelerate the adoption and deployment of radiology AI in the NHS.

Formed as a collaboration between King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' along with a consortium of NHS Trusts, universities and UK and multinational industry partners, the AI4VBH was established in 2019 to realise the transformational potential of AI to improve outcomes for patients, drive efficiencies, and support the development of technologies to be used as products across the NHS and internationally. The AI4VBH's goal is to speed up and improve diagnosis and care across a large number of care pathways including dementia, heart failure and cancer. Over the past five years, the AI4VBH has developed numerous platforms to provide secure access to high-quality electronic health data for the development of AI models and deployment of AI technology. deepc's partnership with the AI4VBH will be focused on providing technology, resources and expertise to support the continued development of new and existing innovations and to improve the Centre's ability to deploy them in clinical settings.

The collaboration will also see deepc deploy its industry-leading platform, deepcOS, to accelerate and scale the adoption of radiology AI technologies efficiently, safely and securely across six leading NHS Trusts, with the intention to expand to 10 Trusts. The first six NHS Trusts to deploy deepcOS will be Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust and East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.

deepc's unified, scalable platform has been built to address this challenge. It allows health systems to benefit from the rapid innovation advancing within radiology AI through a single integration that covers the data privacy, security, regulatory, procurement, integration, deployment, and operational challenges that can often delay the adoption of such new technologies. By making it quicker, easier and cheaper for participating NHS Trusts to access and incorporate state-of-the-art radiology AI tools via a single platform into existing workflows, deepc will help to reduce waiting times for patients, enable clinicians to reach the right diagnosis faster and help relieve the pressure on radiology departments within the NHS.

deepc will implement deepcOS, its industry-leading operating system, giving radiology departments access to more than 75 regulatory-approved AI solutions within a single platform. deepc will start rolling out the platform to initial NHS sites immediately. Longer term, the partnership between deepc and the AI4VBH will also include collaborations to continue providing a safe and secure independent platform to facilitate other organisations and startups working to develop the next generation of AI tools for healthcare.