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UK develops national EHR generative AI model for pandemic prediction

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A new research paper details the development of Foresight-England, a large-scale generative AI model designed to predict medical events using electronic health records (EHRs) specifically within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This transformer decoder model, comprising 243 million parameters, was trained on EHR data from approximately 61 million individuals. While the project aimed to assess the pandemic's effects and generalize to future data, access to the data has been paused by NHS England, preventing the release of quantitative results. The paper therefore serves as a methodological template, outlining the strategies for building population-scale EHR foundation models and highlighting associated challenges. AI

IMPACT This research provides a methodological template for building large-scale EHR foundation models, potentially accelerating future AI applications in healthcare and pandemic response.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a research paper detailing the development of an AI model for medical event prediction using EHRs. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Simon Ellershaw, Christopher Tomlinson, Zeljko Kraljevic, Spiros Denaxas, Harry Hemingway, Cathie Sudlow, Angela M. Wood, Anoop D. Shah, Richard Dobson ·

    Foresight-England: Development of a National-Scale Generative AI Model of Electronic Health Records for Medical Event Prediction across the COVID-19 Pandemic

    arXiv:2608.16273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foresight-England (Foresight-E) is the first national-scale generative foundation model of electronic health records (EHRs), developed as a research pilot strictly for COVID-19 research. We evaluated its ability to model the direc…

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