"The technology has learned to spot patterns in people's medical records to calculate their risk of more than 1,000 diseases.
The researchers say it is like a weather forecast that anticipates a 70% chance of rain – but for human health.
Their vision is to use the AI model to spot high-risk patients to prevent disease and to help hospitals understand demand in their area, years ahead of time...
The AI model was initially developed using anonymous UK data - including hospital admissions, GP records and lifestyle habits such as smoking - collected from more than 400,000 people as part of the UK Biobank research project[1]."
I'm curiously interested in understanding long-term health risk, and how to lower these, potentially with early interventions.
aanet•1h ago
This looks intriguing. From the article:
"The technology has learned to spot patterns in people's medical records to calculate their risk of more than 1,000 diseases.
The researchers say it is like a weather forecast that anticipates a 70% chance of rain – but for human health.
Their vision is to use the AI model to spot high-risk patients to prevent disease and to help hospitals understand demand in their area, years ahead of time...
The AI model was initially developed using anonymous UK data - including hospital admissions, GP records and lifestyle habits such as smoking - collected from more than 400,000 people as part of the UK Biobank research project[1]."
I'm curiously interested in understanding long-term health risk, and how to lower these, potentially with early interventions.
FWIW, the Nature paper quoted is here [2]
[1] https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09529-3