DIGITAL HEALTH BRIEFING: Google, researchers use AI to predict patient mortality -- Mental health chatbot launches on iOS -- Israel PM reveals national digital health project

Welcome to Digital Health Briefing, a new email providing the latest news, data, and insight on how digital technology is disrupting the healthcare ecosystem, produced by BI Intelligence. Sign up and receive Digital Health Briefing free to your inbox. We'd like to hear from you. RESEARCHERS TAP DEEP LEARNING TO PREDICT IN-HOSPITAL PATIENT MORTALITY AND READMISSION RATES: Newly published collaborative research from Google, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in combination with electronic health record data to predict mortality, readmission, and other events that have an adverse impact on healthcare in the US. The study adds considerable weight to the growing body of research in the field of big data and health analytics.