DeepMind given access to London patient records for research • /r/MachineLearning

EMR and other software systems are a partial solution to the underlying data problem, they help structure data in a way that is machine readable and more reproducible. It still doesn't fix it, because most medical data is interpreted rather than explicit. Two doctors will diagnose different conditions, try different treatments, report different findings. Two examples of the same disease behave stochastically but with tens or hundreds of hidden confounders. There isn't a 1-0 training signal, it is a smeared probability distribution that overlaps with other distributions.