Can AI be used to improve patient care?

Google's artificial intelligence (AI) division DeepMind is developing a system that could one day predict when a hospital patient is at risk of dying, even if serious signs of illness are not immediately apparent. With the assistance of the US Veterans Administration, the partnership is seeking to understand the changes in a hospital patient's condition that could result in death if left unchecked by a doctor or nurse, Alphr reports. To do this, the website says, the partnership has fed 700,000 medical records to an AI programme to identify signs of "human error" in treatment. The records are from US army and police veterans. The partnership's first priority is to use AI to understand acute kidney injury, says MedCityNews, which is "a complication related to patient deterioration".