DeepMind's kidney disease-fighting Streams app is coming to a new hospital

DeepMind's Streams app will help diagnose kidney disorders in patients. Google's DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence firm behind the human-besting AlphaGo software, launched a healthcare platform in partnership with the U.K.'s Moorfields Eye Hospital and Royal Free London in 2015. Since then, it applied computer smarts to eye diagnoses, cancer screening, and electronic patient record management. On Wednesday, DeepMind broadened its efforts to Musgrove Park Hospital. Starting this month, doctors and nurses at Musgrove Park will get DeepMind's Streams app for iPhone, which helps spot early signs of acute kidney injury. DeepMind stresses that it is intended to aid, not replace, practitioners -- the app will allow clinical staff to view "results of X-rays, scans or blood tests, in one place at the touch of a button."