{"id":334061,"date":"2017-07-05T06:50:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T06:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=334061"},"modified":"2017-07-05T06:50:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T06:50:39","slug":"google-nhs-deal-rebuked-again-by-deepmind-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/google-nhs-deal-rebuked-again-by-deepmind-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Google NHS deal rebuked again by DeepMind panel"},"content":{"rendered":"
An independent panel set up to oversee the activities of Google’s DeepMind has agreed that its initial deal with a UK hospital was “illegal”.<\/p>\n
The Information Commission (ICO) ruled on Monday that the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust had not done enough to safeguard patient data.<\/p>\n
The controversy is over an app DeepMind developed to identify patients at risk of kidney disease.<\/p>\n
The NHS shared 1.6 million patient data records with the company.<\/p>\n
Dr Julian Huppert, who chairs the DeepMind Health Independent Review Panel, said that the initial data-sharing contract signed with the Royal Free Hospital Trust had had “deficiencies” and that a revised version, written after the controversy hit the media, needed “a lot of changes”.<\/p>\n
The panel also acknowledged that this first contract had differed from the standard ones the NHS signed with third-parties despite the fact that DeepMind had said its deal was “no different” from the multitude of other data-sharing deals done within the NHS.<\/p>\n
Although most of the ICO’s criticism was of the Royal Free, which controlled patient data, the panel had the following advice for DeepMind.<\/p>\n
“It would be well-advised to remind partners of their responsibilities,” said Dr Huppert.<\/p>\n
“People are concerned about the power of big technology firms, and we felt that we should hold DeepMind to a very high standard because of its link to Google,” he said, as the panel released its first annual report.<\/p>\n