Morning Headlines 12/23/16
Google Deepmind and Imperial in streams deal
Google’s UK artificial intelligence company, Deepmind, will implement its only non-AI app, Streams at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Streams monitors clinical information and alerts doctors of deteriorating patients.
Analysis of Nearly 51,000 Geisinger Patient Exomes, EHRs Reveal Actionable Variants, Drug Targets
A study analyzing the DNA and EHR data of 51,000 patients finds that 3.5 percent of the study participants had clinically actionable variants.
Eight More Health Systems Join Growing Support for Surescripts National Record Locator Service
Eight new health systems have joined the Surescripts National Record Locator Service, which runs patient record searches within the Carequality HIE.
UMass Memorial posts $68M surplus for 2016
UMass Memorial Health Care reports a $68 million surplus in 2016, up from $47 million last year, despite $125 million in new debt that it is using to implement Epic.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.