Health and social care

Our research to support the safe introduction of autonomous technologies into health and social care covers underlying technical research and work from demonstrators on areas such as assistive robots and ambulance response.

This section pulls together all the research taking place in health and social care. It also highlights cross-domain work which will be of use to those working in the sector.

Where possible, a lot of the guidance we publish is intentionally developed to be suitable for use in any domain. You will therefore find key pieces of research below that are suitable for those working in any sector.

Contact us

Centre for Assuring Autonomy

assuring-autonomy@york.ac.uk
+44 (0)1904 325345
Institute for Safe Autonomy, University of York, Deramore Lane, York YO10 5GH

Image of guidance website - www.assuringautonomy.com

Expert guidance

Discover our guidance website that is home to our expert guidance on the safety assurance of autonomous systems, including an interactive version of AMLAS, our methodology for assuring the safety of machine learning components.

Go to the website 
(external site)

The DAISY triage robot in the lab

DAISY project

A proof-of-concept decision-support system for A&E patient triage.

Funded by the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems programme and in collaboration with York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation.

DAISY project

Body of Knowledge guidance

You can access entries in the Body of Knowledge related to the safety assurance of autonomous health care systems below, along with useful guidance suitable for all domains. The guidance in the Body of Knowledge is often generalised, enabling you to learn from research undertaken in other domains. You can also access all Body of Knowledge Guidance.

  • 1.1 Identifying hazards
  • 1.2.1 Considering human/machine interactions
  • 1.2 Identifying hazardous system behaviour
  • 1.3.1 Validation of safety requirements
  • 2.6 Handling change during operation

Demonstrators

A number of AAIP-funded industry projects are in the health and social care domain. These are shown below. We have funded projects in a number of other domains and you can also view all of the AAIP-funded demonstrator projects.

Latest research papers

Here are the most recent papers based on research in the health and social care domain from the York team and our demonstrators and Fellows. You can also view all of our research papers.

On the blog

Other resources

Our other research domains

Learn what research is taking place in other domains that might be transferable to your work.

Contact us

Centre for Assuring Autonomy

assuring-autonomy@york.ac.uk
+44 (0)1904 325345
Institute for Safe Autonomy, University of York, Deramore Lane, York YO10 5GH