CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- From monitors that measure patients' skull pressure to respiration and blood pressure rates, doctors are utilizing a technological way of giving their patients the best care possible.

One of those improvements making a big change is the use of artificial intelligence, and researchers at the University of Virginia Health System are showing what makes AI beneficial to hospitals across the country.

“We’ll be putting together a very large data set for AI developers around the world to use. This is going to be the basis for much of what is going to come for AI and health care in years to come,” said Dr. Randall Moorman, a UVA Health cardiologist.

Moorman teamed up with a UVA nursing professor to develop, test and deploy best practices for artificial intelligence health care systems.

The UVA Medical Center has been using AI techniques on patients for more than 20 years, and it has been able to work with doctors in all departments and let them know who is sick and who is not. And this research is just the beginning for UVA. 

“Going forward, we’ll benefit by having data from a lot more patients and at a lot of other sites, and that way we can make more tools that will be more useful anywhere,” added Moorman. 

UVA is working with investigators from all over the country and is leading two cohorts, which will dive into treating every patient fairly, and a data acquisition model, which will deal with making data accessible in the hospital.

"Our hospital has a wonderful reputation for being very advanced in development and uses in these AI tools to take care of patients,” Moorman said. 

The research could ultimately help increase AI’s ability to play a more effective role in the importance of technology in health care.

“There is no danger that AI is going to take over health care, but there’s no doubt that it can help us take care of every individual patient right here, right now,” added Moorman. 

The AI collaborative research, training materials, and diverse data are set to be completed by 2027.