NASCENT

The sustainability of Australian healthcare is dependent upon the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and yet Australia is not ready to implement AI in healthcare. Further, a barrier for AI research to be translated into clinical practice in Australia is the lack of infrastructure for real-time AI evaluation capability within our healthcare system.

The National Infrastructure for Real-time Clinical AI Trials (NASCENT) will address these gaps by delivering the cutting-edge AI evaluation infrastructure, AI workforce capability and capacity, and best-practice consumer partnership required for clinical AI applications to meet expected standards for implementation within Australia’s healthcare system, and deliver on the quintuple aim of healthcare.

NASCENT will be Australia’s first attempt to provide a clinical AI prospective evaluation research infrastructure. It will be the critical foundation to the development of AI solutions, and the first component of translating predictive AI research into the real-world clinical environment. NASCENT will address the three identified gaps by developing the infrastructure to enable prospective evaluation of clinical AI algorithms - demonstrated in two areas of unmet clinical need: acute deterioration and sepsis.

Partners

Led by the University of Queensland (UQ) NASCENT has 20+ academic, health service and industry partners.