The spokesman declined to specify how many patients have been involved in the tests — although given that all three hospitals' patients data is being fed into the algorithm powering the app then, in theory, all current and past patients (extending back five years) of the hospitals are in some sense 'involved' in these tests because their data is being used by the app.
But because they claim the data is not being used for research they argue such approvals are not necessary, even though it is inevitable that a large proportion of the people whose data is being fed into the app will never directly benefit from it.
Echoing a statement Gunderson made last year when the company bought another emerging mapping technology company, Mapdata, he said that the company has 900,000 developers using its SDK in various products, and all of that location data is being fed back to Mapbox to strengthen its mapping tools.
Much of this data is being fed through fusion centers across the country.
The current findings indicate that session-by-session measurement would be welcomed in CAMHS if appropriate administrative and technical support was available and the resulting data were be fed back to both the HCP and patient in a manner that was both clinically meaningful and easy to understand.
But at the end of the day, machine learning can only be as smart as the data that's being fed to it, and therein lies the problem — because the same data used to train machine learning algorithms can teach it to become evil or biased.
The number of X-ray studies performed last night in a short period of time is so great that it causes the entire system to crash under the burden of electronic data it is being fed.
Accurate knowledge is power and COMPSTAT, the system that tracks crime by neighborhood, cannot be an effective crime-fighting tool if it is being fed bogus data.
With the advent of the Internet age and its Big Data explosion, "large amounts of data is being collected about us and then being fed to algorithms to make predictions," Vaibhav Garg, a computer-risk specialist at Drexel University, told me.
