Can Google's DeepMind solve the world's health problems with your medical records?

Google’s DeepMind is an artificial intelligence technology designed to learn and think like humans but on a grand scale and in even better ways to solve problems facing human beings. Tech kingpin Google has been turning its artificial eyes toward healthcare in an attempt to help clinicians solve vexing health problems.

Google has partnered with the U.K.’s London Moorfields eye hospital, for instance, to study 1 million eye scans in an effort to train DeepMind to hunt for possible sight problems. Another example: The U.K.’s National Health Service has granted Google’s DeepMind access to the anonymized records of 1.6 million patients at three hospitals run by London’s Royal Free Trust. The goal of this effort is to create an app, dubbed Streams, that would seek out patients at risk of acute kidney injury and notify physicians accordingly. 

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