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Artificial Intelligence can decide if patients' symptoms require a hospital visit or not.
Aims to relieve pressure on accident and emergency units and outpatient units.
This digital triage system will use a digital symptom checker.
Hospital visits due to minor ailments can be avoided.
Plans to make 70% of 2 million outpatient appointments digital in the next two years.
Patients will be able to attend to outpatient appointments at home, work or even inside a car.
System will be employed at University Hospitals Birmingham.
