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UK needs to act urgently to secure NHS data for British public, report warns: Algorithms based on NHS records could seed
UK needs to act urgently to secure NHS data for British public, report warns: Algorithms based on NHS records could seed an ‘entirely new industry’ in AI-based diagnostics and mint billions for tech companies, strategic review reveals.
"Sir John Bell, a professor of medicine at Oxford university who led the government-commissioned review, said that NHS patient records are uniquely suited for driving the development of powerful algorithms that could transform healthcare and seed an “entirely new industry” in AI-based diagnostics."
The NHS is in a strategically important position and given that it is owned by our communities in the UK and supported by the social capital of its staff it should be free to fully exploit the latent value of its data and not lose that opportunity to short term financially-motivated corporations (or politcally motivated ministers).
Source: www.theguardian.com
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