Google Now Has Access To Millions of Patients Medical RecordsBy Michaela Whitton According to documents obtained by the New Scientist, the data sharing agreement between Google-owned artificial intelligence company DeepMind and the Royal Free NHS Trust gives access to the sensitive healthcare data of millions of NHS patients. The chilling and wide-reaching deal allows DeepMind access to the medical records of the 1.6 million people passing annually through the three London hospitals owned by the Trust Barnet, Chase Farm, and the Royal Free. The Google-owned A.I. firm announced in February it was working with the NHS to build an app called Streams intended to help hospitals monitor patients with kidney disease. However, the new information has revealed that the extent of the data being shared goes much further and includes logs of day-to-day hospital activity, records of the location and status of patients, and even logs of who visits them and when. Results of pathology and radiology tests are also shared, as is information from critical care and accident and emergency departments. In addition, DeepMinds access to the centralised records of all NHS hospital treatments in the U.K. means the tech company can access historical data from the last five years, all while receiving a continuous stream of new data. At the same time, DeepMind is developing a platform called Patient Rescue, which uses hospital data streams to build tools to carry out analysis and support diagnostic decisions. The New Scientist explained how it works: Comparing a new patients information with millions of other cases, Patient Rescue might be able to predict that they are in the early stages of a disease that has not yet become symptomatic, for example. Doctors could then run tests to see if the prediction is correct. While the Royal Free has not yet responded to the question of what if any opt-out mechanisms are available to patients, the New Scientist suggests this is unlikely to be a straightforward process. Despite the agreement stating Google cannot use the data in any other part of the companys business, many will be seriously wary of the access the online tech giant now has to the confidential data of millions of people. As the New Scientist wrote: Data mining is the name of the game in the burgeoning field of machine learning and artificial intelligence, and theres no company in the world better at that than Google. This article (Google Now Has Access To Millions of Patients Medical Records) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Michaela Whitton and theAntiMedia.org. Anti-Media Radio airs weeknights at 11pm Eastern/8pm Pacific. If you spot a typo, email edits@theantimedia.org. What could possibly go wrong I guess everyone forgot google got hacked. Always be a light that is .shininginthedark. Turns out the UNited States created a backdoor over here too. Apparently a US software firm created Canadas healthcare filing system that allowed total access to Canadian health records. This was the whole point of OBAMACARE. All Your Medical Records Belong To Us. We knowhow to F*ck You. I used RSO to cure my Fathers Cancer. We Bought high quality Cannabis Oil from **E-MAIL:(marijuana.network420 at gmail dot com) I dont remember signing anything for my PRIVATE RECORDS to go to Google. Hospital to Hospital, yes. But, Google is not a hospital, and therefore has no business with access to my personal, private, medical records! I think our private lives are now lost to the great beast Google . Why is this happening? Because this is about creating a private corporate global government of which Google is a part, That is why there are trade treaties like the Trans Pacific Partnership which are about turning over ALL government power to elite corporations. 