DeepMind Health – how our Streams app is used at the Royal Free (with subtitles)
176Sarah Stanley, consultant nurse at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, talks about how Streams is used on the wards.
Streams is a secure instant alert app, addressing what clinicians call “failure to rescue”, when the right nurse or doctor doesn’t get to the right patient in time. Each year, many thousands of people in UK hospitals die preventably from conditions like sepsis and acute kidney injury, because the warning signs aren't picked up and acted on in time.
We built Streams in close collaboration with nurses and doctors to help address this problem. Within a few weeks of Streams being deployed at the Royal Free, nurses said that it was saving them up to two hours each day, and we've already heard examples of patients with serious conditions, like Afia Ahmed, who was seen more quickly thanks to the instant alerts.