DeepMind Health

Maybe it's time for Google to invest seriously in homomorphic encryption or other technologies that guarantee they wouldn't infringe the privacy of the people whose medical records they are datamining, if they want expand in this field. And no, their current "anonymization" techniques don't count. Neither do the ones from NHS, which apparently has given up even pretending to care about the patients' privacy:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25088-nhs-plans-leave...

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2016/02/08/care_data...

https://hbr.org/2015/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-anonymous-da...

I fear that AI will most rapitly be adopted in clinics for optimizing the diagnosis keys for which they charge the health insurance providers. This task is currtly done by human controllers and early expert based software systems.

This is were the big cash is.