Trust in ‘Dr Google’ varies when it comes to breast cancer symptoms
A study, carried out by researchers from the University of Surrey, investigated whether women who sought health information online found it useful or not.
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Royal Free: ‘No changes to data-sharing’ as Google absorbs Streams
Royal Free London has confirmed that there will be no changes to its data-sharing agreement with DeepMind as Google takes control of its Streams technology.
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DeepMind’s Streams technology team to join Google
The app helps detect early signs of kidney failure and is currently being used at the Royal Free Hospital in north London.
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Industry news in brief
Our latest industry round-up reveals that less than a quarter of GPs in the UK believe the NHS app will be delivered on time.
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Tech giants make interoperability pledge for US health data
Apple, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Salesforce will work together to drive common standards for exchanging health information in the US.
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Start4Life expands digital breastfeeding programme to Google Assistant
The Breastfeeding Friend service provides new parents with access to NHS-approved breastfeeding advice at any time of day or night.
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Deepmind Health should be ‘more transparent about business model’
The company’s independent review panel published its latest report which looks its relationship with its parent company, Alphabet, a holding of Google.
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Search engines ‘more likely to provoke anxiety in expectant mothers’
New research has suggested search engines are more than likely to provoke anxiety during pregnancy than other sources of information.
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Google launches Cloud Healthcare API to address interoperability conundrum
Google has launch an open-source cloud API to help address interoperability challenges in the healthcare industry, and enable organisations to run machine learning an analytics on clinical data.
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Google DeepMind’s Streams technology branded ‘phenomenal’
An NHS consultant nurse who is part of a team using an app which helps to detect early signs of kidney failure has branded it ‘phenomenal’.
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