Service: U.K. to use AI to spot dangerous side effects in the COVID-19 vaccinations

Responsible organisation: U.K. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) (Central-Government)

To automate the process, the MHRA has given a $1.96 million contract to the U.K. arm of Genpact, the U.S.- listed business process outsourcing firm, to design a machine learning system that can ingest reports of side effects and pick up on potential safety concerns.The regulator told the Financial Times that, based on its previous experience with vaccination campaigns, it would expect that, over a six- to 12-month period, there might be 50,000 to 100,000 reports of suspicious side effects for every 100 million doses injected

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Source Open Innovation Regione Lombardia
Start/end date 2021 -
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