UK – MHRA to launch the AI-Airlock, a new regulatory sandbox for AI developers

The AI-Airlock will assist in the development and deployment of software and AI medical devices, safely providing patients with earlier access to cutting edge innovations that improve care.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has announced it is taking forward its new ‘regulatory sandbox’, the AI-Airlock, that will provide a regulator-monitored virtual area for developers to generate robust evidence for their advanced technologies.

Artificial Intelligence in healthcare represents the exciting potential to improve patient outcomes in many ways, for example through improving diagnoses and treatment selections, optimising medication dosages, and providing enhanced personalised care for patients.

However, technologies like these can sometimes be challenging to test using traditional trial techniques and would therefore benefit from the AI-Airlock project’s collaborative approach to identifying and managing evidence requirements…