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Google’s DeepMind offers promise of paperless NHS

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By John Glenday, Reporter

November 23, 2016 | 2 min read

Google owned artificial intelligence specialists DeepMind are promising to realise the dream of a paperless NHS by applying its software advances to the publicly run health service to slash bureaucracy and administration costs.

The UK firm has signed a five-year deal with London’s NHS Trust to put its ideas into practice via a prototype app which can identify patients who are most at risk of developing acute kidney injury.

Stream is being rolled out to clinicians early next year and will offer doctors access to all salient medical information on their smartphones, complete with alerts and notifications, negating the need to trawl through copious, often illegible, handwritten notes.

DeepMind reckon this system can shrink diagnosis gap from hours to seconds, allowing a cumulative half a million hours to be reallocated from the office to frontline care.

Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, said: “Privacy and trust are paramount, and we’re holding ourselves to an unprecedented level of oversight by publishing our agreements publicly and engaging nine respected public figures to scrutinise our work in the public interest."

Should this perform as envisaged there are plans to expand the service to other major ailments such as sepsis and organ failure.

DeepMind recently doubled its healthcare workforce to 40 employees.

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