GP at Hand, an NHS general practice in west London, is offering to register patients for virtual consultations. It may also permanently destabilise English general practice. One partner of GP at Hand is Mobasher Butt, medical director of the health IT company Babylon, and the practice uses the Babylon symptom checker app. This app, the practice says, gives patients “useful medical information and accurate triage advice.”1 Interesting, because it also says that “The GP at Hand practice shall not be responsible for the artificial intelligence symptom checker which is a separate service provided by Babylon via the App.”2 The results of a pilot study of this app in north London do not yet seem to be published. Babylon has claimed to have independent evidence of safety, but I’ve yet to see it.3 Babylon says that the app “enables your purchase of healthcare and other products sold by our third party product partners.”2 GP at Hand …

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玛格丽特·麦卡特尼（Margaret McCartney）：全科医学不能仅将病人排除

位于伦敦西部的NHS普通科诊所的GP at Hand（普通医生）正在提供患者注册以进行虚拟咨询。这也可能永久破坏英语通用实践。Hand IT的一名合伙人是健康IT公司巴比伦（Ballon）的医学总监Mobasher Butt，该诊所使用巴比伦症状检查器应用程序。实践表明，该应用程序可为患者提供“有用的医学信息和准确的分诊建议。” 1有趣的是，它还说：“ GP现场实践不应对人工智能症状检查程序负责，这是由以下人员提供的一项单独服务：巴比伦通过该​​应用程序。” 2该应用程序在伦敦北部的初步研究结果似乎尚未发布。巴比伦声称拥有独立的安全证据，但我还没有看到。