What Palantir’s £330 million NHS data contract means for patients, privacy and the future of healthcare data in the UK.

England’s National Health Service (NHS) has long had grand ambitions for data use and sharing, but in the past has failed to win over the public with its plans. It hopes secure data environments will ...

NHS data could be of ‘immense value’ to Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, the House of Lords Select Committee on AI has said. In a report published today, the committee reinforces that AI can ...

NHS guidance that all hospitals should be using Palantir software from this month has sparked a backlash.

Dr Tim Ferris, Director of Transformation at NHS England, has told MPs on the Science and Technology Committee that the NHS App could one day be used by citizens to allow them to have insight into how ...

It's been a difficult few weeks for the NHS's digital ambitions. On 3 June a ransomware cyber attack on pathology test provider Synnovis led to thousands of cancelled appointments and procedures and a ...

To get a doctor’s appointment in the U.K. these days, you have to entrust more of your data to private companies — and there’s not a great deal you can do about it. In part due to growing pressure ...

The Government released the latest incarnation of its strategy to enable wider sharing of NHS data that it claims will "drive innovation and deliver cutting-edge patient care". The policy paper, Data ...

A new AI model will be trained on a large set of NHS data in hopes of identifying early interventions for patient care. The generative AI model, called Foresight, is being trained on de-identified ...

Patients will benefit from more streamlined care and be able to make more informed choices about how and where they access treatment after plans to transform NHS data sharing were brought forward. The ...

The programme to create a federated data platform for the NHS must be clear and open with the public from the start, to avoid making the same mistakes as the failed Care.data platform, according to ...

An NHS private contractor has been found to have had a misconfigured API that potentially allowed outside actors to retrieve patient data. An ongoing audit seems to suggest no data was taken. A ...