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The United Kingdom ’s NHS — the world ’s magnanimous public wellness divine service — is working on creaking IT infrastructure , doctors tell theFinancial Times .
“ I am at a top London infirmary and yet at sentence I experience as though we are operating in the gemstone years , ” one doctor tells the FT . For instance , doctors email lists of patients to themselves to print out elsewhere . Some 13.5 million working hours are estimated to be lose annually due to unequal IT systems .
There is n’t a complete absence seizure of modern technical school . NHS figure out with along list of provider . It also start a human relationship with Google ’s DeepMindalmost a decade ago . No doubt many others see opportunity to help . oodles of companies are building AI - enabled “ scribe ” to help clinicians address extensive admin work ; AI is also being apply to drug discovery .
For now , however , one doc , talking with the FT , compares the odds of an NHS infirmary being properly outfit to a coin toss .
Much is at stake : give the NHS bear medical records for almost 67 million mass , a breach could become a nuclear meltdown .
