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.
Digital Patient 1
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.
AI and Analytics
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.
Digital Patient
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.
AI and Analytics 1
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’.
Digital Patient 9
Virtual reality connects surgeons from across the globe
Virtual reality has helped surgeons from across the world jointly operate together on a bowel cancer patient at The Royal London Hospital.
Digital Patient 2
People want to share their health data with Google, report reveals
The highly anticipated report, Internet Trends 2017, reveals people are willing to share their health data with leading tech brands such as Google.
Digital Patient 7
Google’s DeepMind will deploy Streams at Taunton and Somerset
Google’s AI arm, DeepMind Health, will deploy its clinical alerting app, Streams, at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
Infrastructure 2
Health IT news in brief
This week’s health IT news in brief covers new senior appointments at two suppliers, a milestone for Yorkshire and Humber’s genomic medicine centre, and success for a cable management device.
News
DeepMind Health received NHS data on inappropriate legal basis, says Dame Caldicott
Dame Fiona Caldicott has said that DeepMind Health received Royal Free patient data on an inappropriate legal basis to test its app, Streams.
Infrastructure 5