Overview

• Foresight, a generative AI model, is being trained on de-identified health records from 57 million NHS patients as part of a world-first study led by UCL and KCL.
• The pilot study uses eight national datasets, including hospital admissions and vaccination records, within the NHS Secure Data Environment to ensure data privacy.
• Initial research focuses on predicting COVID-19 outcomes while testing the model's ability to generalize to over 1,000 conditions, hospitalizations, and deaths.
• Earlier trials with smaller datasets demonstrated Foresight's predictive accuracy, paving the way for this national-scale initiative.
• While officials emphasize robust security measures, experts caution about potential re-identification risks inherent in large-scale de-identified datasets.