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Plan to feed phone data of NHS mental health patients to AI mothballed

An AI was designed to predict when people are at risk of having a mental health crisis, based on their health records, but plans to extend the project with mobile phone data seem to have been scrapped

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NHS trial will test AI diagnosis with eye scans from 150,000 patients

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Google is shutting down controversial data-sharing project with NHS

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Pearse Keane at New Scientist Live 2019

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How DeepMind's artificial intelligence is reinventing the eye exam

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NHS may use people's phone data to predict mental health issues

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Google gets green light to access five years of NHS patient data

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Google is taking over DeepMind's NHS contracts – should we be worried?

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An inside look at the NHS's plans to revolutionise healthcare with AI

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An inside look at the NHS's plans to revolutionise healthcare with AI

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Vaginal mesh implants have been paused in England

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Health regulator takes step towards lifting vaginal mesh implant ban

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By all means back healthcare tech, but only once it is shown to work

It makes sense to champion high-tech innovations, but UK health minister Matt Hancock would do well to wait until they have been shown to work effectively

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Opt-out organ donation law: Your questions answered

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The medical cannabis debate is a chance to put science before dogma

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NHS England considers plans to cut some surgeries

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