A new AI system developed by researchers from Google and the University of California could prevent deaths caused by incorrect prescriptions. While quite rare, prescriptions that are incorrect – or react badly to a patient's existing medications – can result in hospitalisation or even death. In a blog post today, Alvin Rajkomar MD, Research Scientist and Eyal Oren PhD, Product Manager, Google AI, set out their work on using AI for medical predictions. The AI is able to predict which conditions a patient is being treated for based on certain parameters. "For example, if a doctor prescribed ceftriaxone and doxycycline for a patient with an elevated temperature, fever and cough, the model could identify these as signals that the patient was being treated for pneumonia," the researchers wrote.