Artificial intelligence tools designed to speed up patient discharge are being tried in hospital trusts in London.
The platform may complete the necessary documents to send FIT patients home, saving delays and freeing the bed.
Health Secretary Wes Street said the technology will allow doctors to spend less time on paperwork, focusing on care, and reduce waiting times in the process.
The platform piloted by the Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust extracts information from medical records, including diagnostics and test results.
This will help the Medic draft a summary of discharge. This must be completed before a person is sent home from the hospital.
This document is reviewed by the patient's healthcare professional and used to send it home or refer other services.
The Ministry of Science, Innovation and Technology can be too busy filling in forms, so manual systems can wait for patients to be discharged for hours.
Streeting said: “This potentially transformative emissions tool is a classic example of the shift from analog to digital as part of a 10-year health plan.
“We are using cutting-edge technology to build NHS fits for the future, working on a hospital backlog that is waiting for too many people for a long time.
“Doctors spend less time on paperwork, more time with patients, take their families home faster and release beds for those who need them most.”
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The tool is hosted on the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), a software system aimed at helping health and care organizations collaborate and better serve their patients.
In January, Kiel's Starmer, Prime Minister, said AI would be used to “look back” on the economy and public services.
Elsewhere, the government has announced a technology that has been shown to halve the time probation officers will sort out later this year. This system helps probation officers to transcribe and take notes at meetings they have with the offender after they leave the prison.
AI is also being tried all over the NHS. The technology provides an early warning system that analyzes hospital databases, catches potential safety scandals early, detects patterns and trends, and can cause emergency testing.
The first NHS AI-run Physiotherapy Clinic has halved the waiting list for lower back pain and musculoskeletal services. More than 2,500 patients living in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have been able to access the physical therapy app Flok Health for 12 weeks starting in February.
And the UK's NHS is trying out “superhuman” AI tools that predict early patient illness and death risk.
During a visit to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, technology secretary Peter Kyle said:
“This government is continuing the public sector that has been destroyed by years of underinvestment and is crying out for reform.
“These AI models demonstrate the best ways to use Tech to build a smarter and more efficient state.
“When we get this right across the government, we're talking about unlocking £45 billion with productivity gains and offering investment plans for growth rather than bureaucracy.”
