Doctors at Imperial College hospitals will soon be monitoring the health of patients with an app developed by Google-backed AI firm DeepMind.
The Streams app gathers information about key physiological measurers and warns when readings are high or low.
Streams came from a deal with London’s Royal Free hospital that gave Google access to 1.6 million patient records.
Medical data campaigners said patients deserved to know more about how their data was being used.
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The deal will see medical professionals at three London hospitals, St Mary’s, Hammersmith and Charing Cross, getting updates and alerts on their smartphones about patients who are at risk of a sudden deterioration in their health.
The alerts and updates will be derived from blood tests and other regularly administered measures of an individual’s condition.
In a statement Dr Sanjay Gautama, chief clinical information officer at Imperial College Healthcare Trust, said the partnership should mean doctors get “vital information” about a patient’s condition quicker.
As well as data from medical checks, the Streams alerts and updates will draw on electronic patient records held at the hospitals.
Source: Google app aids London hospital health checks – BBC News
