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

27 January 2020

A National Health Service trust has partnered with telecoms firm Telefonica to trial an algorithm that can identify people at risk of mental health crisis. A next step could see mobile phone data being used to make predictions
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Google is taking over DeepMind's NHS contracts – should we be worried?

27 September 2019

Five NHS trusts have agreed contracts with Google Health after it swallowed up its UK sister firm DeepMind Health. But a lack of transparency means it's hard to tell how much has changed

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