Tech: DeepMind is expanding its Streams health app as the UK data regulator continues its investigation (GOOG)

DeepMind's first deal with the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is being investigated by the Information Commissioners Office.

Dominic King, clinician scientist and clinical lead at Google DeepMind, said at the CogX conference in London on Wednesday that DeepMind is now working with Musgrove Park Hospital in Somerset, which is operated by Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.

"We're delighted to announce our first partnership outside of London to help doctors and nurses break new ground in the NHS's use of digital technology" DeepMind wrote in a blog post on its website.

"Over the next five years, we'll be rolling it out at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust as part of a new partnership."

Streams, which doesn't yet involve any of the artificial intelligence technology that DeepMind is known for, allows clinicians to see electronic patient records on their smartphones and get alerts when their patient's conditions start to deteriorate.

Hospital workers have welcomed the new app but privacy campaigners are unhappy with how much access the Google company was given to medical records without patients being informed.

DeepMind's first NHS deal was with the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. The deal is being investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office, which is the UK data regulator.

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