Why Google DeepMind wants your medical records
Found on BBC News on Wednesday, 20 July 2016
Projects include a tie-up with London Moorfields eye hospital, which will see it using one million eye scans to train its artificial intelligence system to diagnose potential sight issues, and development of an app to help doctors spot kidney disease.
In May it was revealed that Google's DeepMind, had been given access to the healthcare data of up to 1.6 million patients from three hospitals run by London's Royal Free Trust in order to develop an app, called Streams, that would notify doctors should someone be at risk of developing acute kidney injury (AKI).
Simple. In the health (and health insurance) sector there is a lot of money to make if you sell the right data to the right interest groups.