NHS Pauses Access to National-Scale 60M-Patient AI Model
zakkohane · x · 2026-08-19
NHS England has paused access to the Foresight-England model. Developed by @foresightgovuk, this 300M parameter Transformer was trained on EHRs of 60M patients to predict medical events beyond the COVID-19 era. It marks the first national-scale generative foundation model pilot for electronic health records.
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