Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data

Re:Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data by petra on Monday May 02, 2016 @07:16PM (#11616560)

>> Or - worse - you'll see new information, but it'll be invisibly erroneous, because random GPs don't work to the standard that physicians administering examinations in clinical studies do.

So you will take this into account and emphasize the more reliable types of tests, like blood tests. Or you'll find ways of learning which doctors who do the tests more accurately(or train doctors to do so) and which people are more consistent/reliable with their relationship with their docs. Or maybe you'll get a few hypotheses which are relatively likely and that would incentivize the researchers/google to do small clinical trials on them.

It's worth a try at least.

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Re:Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data by throwanem on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @10:08AM (#11620773)

Even if it were - which is, for the aforementioned reasons, doubtful - it would not be worth turning over the medical records of 50M people to an unregulated private company without so much as a by-your-leave.

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