AI for Opportunity and Value – Course Outline
Who should attend
Finance professionals
Learning objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to understand how AI can create new opportunities and add value within NHS finance, and apply AI techniques to improve existing processes and reduce administrative burden.
Course content
This course has two modules. AI for Opportunity focuses on creating new processes and ways of working, while AI for Value focuses on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of existing processes.
AI for Opportunity
This module explores how AI can help create new processes and ways of working within NHS finance. Case studies and lab exercises may include:
- predictive analytics for decision-making
- using AI to think creatively and identify new opportunities within NHS finance
- using AI to increase skills and knowledge, for example by acting as a tutor to brief participants quickly or teach them about a subject
AI for Value
This module covers how AI can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of existing processes and reduce the administrative burden in NHS finance. Case studies and lab exercises may include:
- demand prediction
- workforce planning
- risk identification, such as identifying risks in a proposal or supplier quote
- invoice processing, including reading key details from PDF invoices and extracting invoice numbers, dates, and amounts
- reconciliation of financial records, including identifying missing records and discrepancies
- data analysis to identify trends and anomalies in financial data