The digital robots unlocking medical data
Big medical datasets pose a serious problem. Thousands of patients\u2019 health records are an enormous risk to personal privacy. But they also contain an enormous opportunity \u2013 they could show us how to provide better treatments or more effective health policies.
A system called OpenSAFELY has been designed to solve this problem, with the help of a computer code \u201crobot\u201d.
Professor Ben Goldacre, director of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford, explains how it works. \nPresenter: Tim Harford\nProducer: Tom Colls\nProduction co-ordinator: Janet Staples\nSound mix: Hal Haines\nEditor: Charlotte McDonald