Israel Nears Milestone on Use of Health Data for AI Research

July 29, 2019, 10:50 AM UTC

Israel’s health ministry is just months away from releasing rules for how scientists and academics can use a database of 9 million encrypted health records to develop artificial intelligence tools to improve medical diagnostics. It’s all part of a five-year effort to develop one of the world’s most detailed and accessible health data banks for AI research.

Layers of Protection: Hospitals and health-care providers will feed the database daily. It will remove identifiable information from the data, and it will be protected through multiple layers of encryption and stored in a secure central data bank.

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