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	Podcast:		More or Less: Behind the Stats
	Episode:		The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:09:47
	Publish Date:		2024-02-17 06:00:00
	Description:		Big medical datasets pose a serious problem. Thousands of patients’ health records are an enormous risk to personal privacy. But they also contain an enormous opportunity – 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 “robot”. Professor Ben Goldacre, director of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford, explains how it works. Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Janet Staples Sound mix: Hal Haines Editor: Charlotte McDonald
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