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WHY HEALTHCARE DATA WILL BE THE PANACEA TO NHS CHALLENGES
Mark Hitchman , Managing Director of Canon Medical Systems UK , explains how healthcare data must be harnessed through specialist digital data and Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) acceleration initiatives to improve outcomes , tackle waiting lists and alleviate staff shortages .
It is estimated that hospitals produce 50 petabytes of data per year . That ’ s 50,000 terabytes or the equivalent of a billion tall filing cabinets of information such as text health records , CT or MRI scan images and laboratory results . This huge trove of digital health data holds exciting potential for the advancement of early disease detection , better patient outcomes and alleviating workforce issues .
By accessing information from healthcare institutions – deidentifying it so that personal information cannot be attributed to a specific person and processing it through safe AI research platforms – technical algorithms can
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