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Hospital develops AI to identify patients likely to skip appointments

Hannah Devlin

April 12, 2019 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: England, Greater London

When people don't show up for an appointment, it can cost hospitals a lot of money and also unnecessarily increase wait times for other patients. A hospital in London is trying to reduce both the cost and wait problems by using artificial intelligence to predict which patients are most likely to be no-shows.

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