Project will assist those living with COPD

A pilot project that uses artificial intelligence to support people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has made a major leap forward.

Dynamic Scot– part led by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde – uses artificial intelligence to remotely monitor a patient’s condition while also offering support from doctors and self management tools.

Currently available to 2,000 COPD patients in Greater Glasgow as part of the research project, the service has won a share of a £140million Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Fund.

The funding will allow the research team to gather more evidence on the benefits of the technology before it is potentially rolled out to others across the UK.

Dr Chris Carlin, clinical lead of Dynamic Scot, said:“COPD is a global healthcare challenge and managing it has become even more challenging with the Covid-19 pandemic.

“The COPD digital service we’ve developed has helped reduce that pandemic impact, with a positive impact on patients.

“This award will allow us to bring the exciting innovations – AI insights - that we’ve developed in the research environment through into clinical practice.

“The evaluations that this award will allow us to undertake will let us gather the evidence about how best to use these AI insights to support people with

COPD and their clinical teams to co-manage their condition.”

Dynamic Scot is a collaboration between NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, the West of Scotland Innovation Hub, Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre, and Storm ID, developers of the Lenus Health Platform.

The AI Award aims to increase the impact of AI-driven technologies to help solve clinical and operational challenges across the NHS and care settings.