Foresight: a generative AI model of patient trajectories across the COVID-19 pandemic

Scaling Foresight (Kraljevic et al. 2022), a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) model trained from scratch on EHR codes to the population of 57 million contained within the NHS England Secure Data Environment (SDE) accessed via the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre’s CVD-COVID-IMPACT consortium.

Organisations

  • Health Data Research UK & BHF Data Science Centre: Data access, approvals
  • NHS England: Approvals, platform support
  • Databricks: Software engineering support for scaling training on Databricks EC2 platform
  • Amazon Web Services: Cloud computing credits
Chris Tomlinson
Chris Tomlinson

MBBS BSc MRes DMCC MRCA

UK Health Data & AI Lead

Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Foundation Models

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