UK NHS Must Capture Data For Next Generation Of AI In Healthcare

Response to UK AI Action Plan: NHS Data Completeness and Accessibility Crucial

While the UK’s new plan to unlock public health data is a good start, complete, accessible data and regional computational infrastructure are needed to properly train AI for healthcare innovation, AI expert Muhammad Bilal tells Medtech Insight.

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“The National Health Service is sitting on a goldmine of data. But the question is whether the data is complete,” said Muhammad Bilal, professor of applied AI and technology ethics at Birmingham City University.

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