AI deployment platform for the NHS
Simplify, Standardise, Scale
Using technology built on truly open standards and our proven AI deployment expertise, we can orchestrate your AI implementations, accelerate your AI maturity, and help you realise the benefits quicker.
From a single installation, Answer Digital’s AI deployment platform provides:
Choice
Access to unlimited AI applications via a single installation.
Scale
Integration and optimisation into multiple clinical services which once took months, can be achieved in less than a week.
NHS Pedigree
No other AI platform provider can match our 25 years’ experience in NHS data engineering, architecture design, and delivery. Or, our expertise proved by seven live AI platform deployments across London.
Award Winning team
Winners of the prestigious Artificial Intelligence Project of the Year Award at the UK IT Industry Awards 2023, recognised for our innovative use of AI technology to drive impactful solutions and deliver outstanding results across the industry.
Choosing the right AI deployment strategy
AI is a complex and rapidly evolving specialism that will unlock immeasurable value for healthcare providers and patients.
But AI in healthcare is at an inflection point. The majority of the deployable innovation is currently focused on radiology workflows, and PACS and RIS suppliers are hastily developing their own costly proprietary AI add-ons.
At the other end of the spectrum is an emerging ecosystem of innovative AI model creators each trying to capture their own corner of the market with bespoke point-to-point integrations.
If the current state of legacy technology solutions in the NHS has taught us anything, it is that both of these approaches create bottlenecks, stifling innovation.
At Answer, we know there’s a different way. We developed it.
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Get in touch with us todayWhere does an AI platform sit in your workflow?
An AI deployment platform sits in between trust systems and the AI models to simplify, standardise and scale AI adoption in your services. Our platform integrates with any PACS, while making it equally accessible for AI models to ensure a truly vendor neutral approach, and flexibility of choice for trusts.
Standardised regulatory approvals for information governance, security, clinical safety, education and training means deployments can happen in days, not months, and can be easily scaled across numerous clinical services within the same hospital, or an entire region.
When in use, more time is saved for clinicians by the platform intelligently launching the right models depending on the input it has received.
The benefits of scaling AI through one platform
A platform approach provides flexibility and choice of models in a way that will scale from trials through to clinical deployments across numerous clinical services. This scalability is achieved in a number of ways, such as:
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One integration to clinical systems
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Standardised governance approvals
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Vendor neutral marketplace of pre-integrated models
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Intelligent orchestration engine
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Safe evaluation of AI performance
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Secure data transmission
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Reduced hardware dependencies
Flexibility and choice through a built-in marketplace
In the marketplace you can browse the models that are already integrated onto the platform. You can look at example outputs and get information on the regulatory compliance that they have achieved to date
From here you can select the models you wish to run and trigger the configuration to start with the model vendor.
A truly regional solution
The Answer AI platform is specifically designed to work for imaging networks with ambitions to integrate across their region.
This allows networks to choose the models they want and structure the education and training approach through one system.
It supports cross-trust reporting by routing AI results to other trusts, helping networks to reduce waiting lists by sharing the full reporting capacity across a region.
Education
Putting AI into the heart of trust and regional education services. Educating clinicians to be comfortable with AI and its value to clinical services, leading to AI being adopted more confidently and at greater scale within trusts.
Incubation
Supporting academia and startups to scale faster. Mitigating the significant cost of NHS interoperability and governance. Enabling faster clinical trials and creating a pathway to clinical deployment.
Acceleration
Utilising the Answer AI platform to accelerate the adoption and scaling of AI in local NHS trusts. Allowing innovation to flow through from the academia and incubators into meaningful clinical usage.
Who we help
Using technology built on truly open standards and our proven AI deployment expertise, we can orchestrate your AI implementations, accelerate your AI maturity, and help you realise the benefits quicker.
Trusted by the NHS and AI model developers
Beomseok Brandon Suh, CEO
"We’ve been able to move from theoretical applications of AI in the NHS to the practical. Working with Answer has made the process simple and accessible, with minimal disruption to workflows. They understand that trusts and imaging networks need results now, and they consistently deliver as an integration partner."
Julien Vidal, Co-Founder and CEO
“Taking an open-platform deployment approach has enabled us to overcome the usual governance issues that come with NHS technology adoption. There are a number of AI deployment approaches available in the UK, but we would choose Answer’s methodology every time. Our own integration took one day, and the team’s technical know-how is second to none.”
Case study: Developing the AI Deployment Engine (AIDE) for the AI Centre of Value Based Healthcare
Advocates for an open platform approach to AI deployment, ensuring future scalability and innovation without locking out emerging technologies.
How to accelerate deployment of innovative AI solutions
NHS teams have a decision to make with regards to how they will deploy emerging AI technology. Making the right strategic choices is vital for ensuring you are not locked out of future innovation.
Looking for an AI deployment partner to help you access the benefits of AI quicker?
We’re here to help. Talk to us today, and explore the Answer way.