Led by the University of Liverpool’s Civic Health Innovation Labs (CHIL), CHI-Zone will spearhead the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other data-driven technologies to transform healthcare, social care and wellness – raising international visibility and driving exports.
Using a ‘technologies for all, for life’ approach, it will develop AI to tackle global challenges - giving children a better start in life and helping adults to thrive. It will also create AIs to enable older people to live better, including the use of AI-powered technologies in homes and communities.
Initially based in Liverpool Science Park, CHI-Zone will expand into HEMISPHERE One as it builds on the city region’s civic data foundations to establish a world-leading civic AI cooperative.
It will build on regional strengths to support innovations in:
- Infection Resilience: Developing AIs to ready society for future pandemics and tackle the global threat from antibiotic resistant bugs.
- Mental Health: Training AIs to support mental wellbeing, including in the workplace, deliver digital therapies and better integrate mental and physical healthcare to meet rising demand.
- Child and Maternal Health: Using AIs to build smart, child-friendly cities that help families to maximise their child’s future health from conception to two years.
- Bio-data Banking and Health Avatar: Empowering residents to combine health records with biological sample-derived data to fuel discoveries, improve therapies, and personalise care.
- Pressure-resistant Health and Social Care: Shaping technologies that support vulnerable people at home, preventing hospital admissions and improving use of NHS and social care services.
- Medicines Optimisation: Developing AIs that improve the clinician-prescribing and patient-use of medicines for better safety, effectiveness, and value for money.
- Conversational Data Analytics: Enabling conversations with AIs that help people generate insights from big data without needing specialist programming skills.
Contact: chil@liverpool.ac.uk
Image: Professor Lucy Chappell, Mayor Steve Rotheram, and senior representatives at the launch of the Civic Health Innovation Labs (CHIL).
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