NHS FORTH VALLEY is one of three Scottish organisations shortlisted for the first Futurescot AI Challenge.

The inaugural contest welcomes businesses to develop AI-related ideas, with a prize of £20,000 up for grabs to progress their project.

The health board, which serves Falkirk, Stirling and Clackmannanshire, has been named as a finalist alongside the Scottish Parliament and the National Library of Scotland.

NHS Forth Valley put forward an idea looking to harness AI technology to improve both the processing of complaints data and to draw out insights of learning for service improvement.

Organised by Storm ID, the contest received applications from more than 20 organisations, covering 35 ideas.

Paul McGinness, founder of Storm ID, said: “We were delighted by the response levels from Scotland’s public sector agencies.

“It just goes to show that there is a huge groundswell of support to try and use AI for the public good.

“The range and quality of applications made it a difficult taks for our judging panel, but we reached consensus that the three selected for the final stage were highly innovative and potentially transformative in the way they deliver services to citizens.”

The three finalists will receive a workshop provided from Storm ID to develop proof of concepts (POCs), which will be showcased at Digital Scotland on November 26.

Other ideas that made the finals included an AI system to transform the way citizens engage with Scottish Parliaments’s live web streams and using AI to help audiences discover Scotland’s audio-visual heritage at the library.