DeepMind Health, the division of the Google-owned AI company that’s applying machine learning to medical data in the hopes of profiting from diagnostic gain, has inked another services agreement with the U.K.’s National Health Service — expanding the deployment of an alerts, messaging and task management app, Streams, to a hospital in Taunton & Somerset. This expansion comes despite ongoing controversy over the company’s first NHS data-sharing agreement. The sharing of 1.6 million patients’ medical records with DeepMind by the Royal Free NHS Trust during the development of Streams remains under investigation by the U.K.’s data protection watchdog, the ICO. Patients were not informed nor their consent sought. Yet the Streams app has since been actively deployed in the Royal Free’s hospitals. And DeepMind is now forging ahead further, by inking a commercial agreement with a third NHS Trust to deploy the task management app, following an agreement with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust last December. Announcing the latest Streams app agreement on its blog, DeepMind makes no mention of the ongoing data-sharing consent controversy attached to the app’s development. “At Musgrove Park Hospital, part of Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, [Streams’] features will alert doctors and nurses to… Read full this story
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