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Babylon Health dials back some services in the UK

Babylon Health dials back some services in the UK

August 9, 2022August 10, 2022 Natasha Lomas 247 Viewsartificial intelligence, Babylon Health, digital healthcare, Health, healthcare, Matt Hancock, National Health Service, NHS, primary care, United Kingdom, United States 12 min read

U.K. health tech startup Babylon Health is pulling in its horns in its home market, blaming challenging global and macroeconomic conditions for the termination of a couple of multiyear contracts it had inked with two NHS Trusts in England in recent years — including one from the start of 2020 that had been trumpeted as […]

Google faces fresh class action-style suit in UK over DeepMind NHS patient data scandal

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Google faces fresh class action-style suit in UK over DeepMind NHS patient data scandal

May 16, 2022 Natasha Lomas 228 Viewsartificial intelligence, DeepMind, DeepMind Technologies, Google, lawsuit, Litigation, medical data, misuse of private information, National Health Service, NHS, patient data, Royal Free NHS Trust, United Kingdom 6 min read

Google is facing a new class-action style lawsuit in the U.K. in relation to a health data scandal that broke back in 2016, when it emerged that its AI division, DeepMind, had been passed data on more than a million patients as part of an app development project by the Royal Free NHS Trust in […]