{"id":79722,"date":"2018-06-19T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/google-says-its-ai-is-better-at-predicting-death-than-hospitals"},"modified":"2018-06-21T13:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T20:02:22","slug":"google-says-its-ai-is-better-at-predicting-death-than-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/google-says-its-ai-is-better-at-predicting-death-than-hospitals","title":{"rendered":"Google says its AI is better at predicting death than hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-says-its-ai-is-better-at-predicting-death-than-hospitals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nature article presents an AI developed by Google\u2019s Medical Brain team which outperforms hospitals\u2019 own warning system in predicting the death risk among hospit\u2026al patients.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Google\u2019s Medical Brain team is now training its AI to predict the death risk among hospital patients \u2014 and its early results show it has slightly higher accuracy than a hospital\u2019s own warning system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-06-18\/google-is-training-machines-to-predict-when-a-patient-will-die\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a> describes the healthcare potential of the Medical Brain\u2019s findings, including its ability to use previously unusable information in order to reach its predictions. The AI, once fed this data, made predictions about the likelihood of death, discharge, and readmission.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41746-018-0029-1#Sec3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nature<\/a> <\/em>in May, from Google\u2019s team, it says of its predictive algorithm:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2018\/06\/19\/google-ai-predictions-death-hospitals\/\">https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2018\/06\/19\/go...hospitals\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature article presents an AI developed by Google\u2019s Medical Brain team which outperforms hospitals\u2019 own warning system in predicting the death risk among hospit\u2026al patients. Google\u2019s Medical Brain team is now training its AI to predict the death risk among hospital patients \u2014 and its early results show it has slightly higher accuracy than a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79741,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79722\/revisions\/79741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}