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Hospital computer predicts death with 96% accuracy

14-Sep-2015

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Super computer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, collects and analyzes patient data every 3 minutes. Uses artificial intelligence to compare medical history and current medication with data from 250,000 patients over 30 years.

Enables AI to recognise rare diseases quickly.

Also predicts death in next 30 days with 96% accuracy. Raises ethical questions on whether those patients will be provided with the same level of resources.

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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)

Teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.

Steve Horng

Clinical Informatician and Emergency Physician at BIDMC.

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