Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind is partnering with another UK hospital
Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind is continuing to partner with new UK hospitals, announcing today that its Streams app will be used by the Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. This is the first time that Streams has been introduced outside of London. The app doesn’t use artificial intelligence, but sifts data from patients’ medical records to warn doctors and nurses about upcoming health problems.
According to a statement from the Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, the Streams app will allow clinical staff to view the “results of x-rays, scans or blood tests, in one place at the touch of a button.” One doctor quoted by the Trust said the app was being used to improve “early detection of seriously unwell patients” and…