If you are fan of Jeopardy you may have watched the program the two nights that IBM's computer, Watson, competed with Jeopardy's two biggest human winners (most money and most episodes). The first night the human competitrs didn't stand a change. The second night they had learned to buzz in before the question had been read and hope they had a prayer of knowing the answer. They did better but Watson still was the victor. It was a fun look at a sophisticated computer but I really did not get how it would be useful in real life.
Fast forward to the present.
"The technology company is partnering with electronic health record vendor Epic and Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic to apply cognitive computing capabilities to EHRs, according to an announcement Tuesday. Epic will also use Watson to embed cognitive computing services into its decision support offerings using open standards such as Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources and application programming interfaces."
"In addition, IBM announced that it plans to collaborate with 14 cancer institutes across the country to create more personalized treatments for patients. This isn't a totally new endeavor for IBM; it previously worked with Memorial Sloan-Kettering and the New York Genome Center on personalized cancer treatment projects."
'In addition to these new programs, IBM also has a partnership with Apple to bring cloud services and analytics to HealthKit and ResearchKit. "
So don't expect Dr. Watson to roll into your hospital room but pretty soon he will be consulting behind the scenes, searching his data base fot statistically similar if not identical patient histories to create a personalized treatment program for you. This is just one more way the Electronic Health Record is creating a huge data base of what treatment works under what conditions in the new Value Based Purchasing health care paradigm.
Fast forward to the present.
"The technology company is partnering with electronic health record vendor Epic and Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic to apply cognitive computing capabilities to EHRs, according to an announcement Tuesday. Epic will also use Watson to embed cognitive computing services into its decision support offerings using open standards such as Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources and application programming interfaces."
"In addition, IBM announced that it plans to collaborate with 14 cancer institutes across the country to create more personalized treatments for patients. This isn't a totally new endeavor for IBM; it previously worked with Memorial Sloan-Kettering and the New York Genome Center on personalized cancer treatment projects."
'In addition to these new programs, IBM also has a partnership with Apple to bring cloud services and analytics to HealthKit and ResearchKit. "
So don't expect Dr. Watson to roll into your hospital room but pretty soon he will be consulting behind the scenes, searching his data base fot statistically similar if not identical patient histories to create a personalized treatment program for you. This is just one more way the Electronic Health Record is creating a huge data base of what treatment works under what conditions in the new Value Based Purchasing health care paradigm.
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