BBC Click : Can artificial intelligence ‘ save ’ the NHS ?
The potential value of that data led to raised eyebrows when , in December 2019 , the UK government gave Amazon unfettered access to non-patient data for free , with Amazon ’ s Alexa voice assistant in turn providing health information via voice search . Elsewhere , other big tech firms are interested in acquiring medical data , with Google doing a deal with Ascension , a company that runs 2,600 hospitals in the US , which gave it access to patient data .
Of course , such data is not purely useful to American tech giants , with the NHS and other health bodies themselves able to capitalise upon it . One possible avenue of exploration lies in opening up such data sets to AI . Matthew Gould , the CEO of NHSX , the NHS ’ s digital transformation arm , wrote in a recent blog post : “ Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) holds enormous potential for the NHS , if we can use it right . It can reduce the burden on the system by taking on the tasks that can be converted into an algorithm . Many of these are in areas of greatest pressure , like radiography and
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BBC Click : Can artificial intelligence ‘ save ’ the NHS ?
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