The NHS, AI and Our Data
Analysis
BBC
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The NHS has a unique resource - data. David Edmonds asks whether a combination of data and Artificial Intelligence will transform the future of the NHS. The programme features among others Sir John Bell, who leads the government’s life-sciences industrial strategy and Matthew Gould chief executive of NHSx, the unit set up to lead the NHS's digital transformation. As the NHS tries to make use of its data, the programme raises the danger that data may be flogged off to the private sector at bargain basement prices.
Producer Sheila Cook Editor Jasper Corbett
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| 0:41.0 | Thank you for listening to this edition of Analysis, the program that tries to get |
| 0:45.5 | behind the stories in the news. I'm David Edmonds and in this program I ask whether a combination |
| 0:51.4 | of data and artificial intelligence is set to transform the NHS. |
| 0:57.0 | In the year 1848, the Western half of the United States was a wild and unsettled land, but new gold |
| 1:07.7 | deposits were discovered in California. |
| 1:12.0 | It's become a cliche to compare the windfall of mineral or oil discoveries with our digital age, |
| 1:18.0 | in which there's a new commodity, a commodity that may prove more valuable than any natural resource. |
| 1:25.0 | Data. |
| 1:26.0 | Britain's oil fields may be running down, |
| 1:29.0 | but now corporations are investigating where to drill for data. |
| 1:33.0 | And there's one UK organisation in particular |
| 1:36.0 | with lucrative potential. |
| 1:40.0 | People are getting excited about NHS data |
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