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Last #CILIPConf18 session! I have nearly made it. Sue Lacey-Bryant, Health Education England on AI our digital future.

85% of 16-75 year olds have a smartphone. More for 18-24 year olds. It is a digital future. Linklaters using chatbots to cover directional enquiries, freeing up time for the professionals.

Topol review - preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future - independent report for secretary of state for health care.

Eric Topol - very eminent physician, author of The Patient will see you now. Leading the report.

Looking through a lens of genomics, digital medicine, and AI & robotics. Seeing how the new tech might change the roles of workforce and skills needed.

Looking at the here and now (the future is here, just not evenly distributed), 7-10 years, and 20 years. Genomics may take even longer.

Interim report is now out. A call for evidence. Patient involvement, use of evidence and giving the gift of time to practitioners.

A pilot app - Ask NHS, a virtual assistant. Use a chatbots and talk to a clinician.

Robotics and AI - machine learning, personalise care, save time, provide evidence.

NHS appointed first Chief Clinical Info Officer in 2016.

CILIP has a Health Hub area on website.

OK, Google and Siri have replaced answers to simple questions that reference librarians might otherwise have to ask.

*Answer. Hugh is a mobile library assistant at Uni of Aberystwyth - takes you to resources.

NICE has developed RobotAnalyst - a screening tool to do database searching so we can spend more time summarising and synthesising.

So many jobs are at risk of being automated. Need to look at industries where they have already done it. When someone walks into a car showrooms they already know which car they want, from collected data.

And yet, people sometimes have to take physical files across hospitals so that doctors will have them.

We want to take the machine out of the human, not the human out of the machine..#CILIPConf18

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