An article from New Scientist discusses the large amount of patient data from three London hospitals being shared with Google DeepMind’s artificial intelligence in an effort to develop predictive support tools for healthcare providers. Thanks to Marina Rosenfield for alerting me this story.
The NIH has announced the appointment of Patricia Flatley Brennan, R.N., Ph.D. as the new head the National Library of Medicine. Read the press release here. Dr. Brennan has experience with both patient care and medical informatics.
The Clinical Librarian from the Edward L. Pratt Library at Cincinnati Children’s has posted on the Library Blog about some medical podcasts and resources for locating more podcasts on medicine. You can also find more podcasts on medicine, science, and a wide variety of other topics on our new Podcasts LibGuide.