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A new research project is tracing how AI is used in European healthcare, who supplies the tools and what happens to patients’ data. Júlia Keserű, an independent expert working with Liberties and its partners, says the project is examining the chain from funding and procurement to hospitals and patient expectations.

Keserű says the researchers have interviewed more than 50 people and used freedom-of-information requests to hospitals in nine EU countries, alongside analysis of investment, procurement and EU grant data. The project is due to present its research at a webinar on 24 November. That offers a more grounded starting point than another broad argument about whether health AI is good or bad: who buys it, who benefits, and whether patients know how their data is used.

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