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Google AI predicts hospital patient deaths

Google’s algorithm predicted inpatient mortality in two different hospitals

20-Jun-2018

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Google's Medical Brain team is using a new type of AI algorithm.

Makes predictions about the likelihood of death among hospital patients.

Outperformed traditional, clinical predictive models in all cases.

Can crunch thousands of data points in a patient's medical records.

Latest results published last month in the journal Nature.

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Technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products

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Scientific journal covering research from a variety of academic disciplines, mostly in science and technology

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