Search Results: "IBM"
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MedCity Influencers, Artificial Intelligence
IBM dumping Watson Health is an opportunity to reevaluate artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence in healthcare is only as good as the patient data that is collected. The information must be accurate, and precision management of patient data is critical for AI to succeed.
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MedCity Influencers, Opinion, Artificial Intelligence
Why IBM Watson Health could never live up to the promises
The failure of IBM’s marketing-first approach to clinical AI was entirely predictable, but it didn’t have to be this way. Here’s how AI can be implemented effectively.
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Health IT, Hospitals, Artificial Intelligence
Cleveland Clinic, IBM launch 10-year tech-enabled research partnership
The healthcare provider and technology giant have entered into a 10-year partnership that will leverage AI, cloud and quantum computing capabilities to accelerate research. The collaboration will include the first private-sector installation of the IBM Quantum System One.
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Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
Will IBM’s reported desire to sell Watson cast a shadow over big tech’s healthcare ambitions?
IBM is reportedly looking to sell its Watson Health business. If true, it would be another stumble in a much-hyped healthcare project by a technology company.
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Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech, Payers
Humana, IBM Watson Health team up to provide access to AI chatbot
Through a new collaboration, Humana’s Employer Group members will gain access to IBM Watson Health’s AI-powered digital assistant. The chatbot will provide information on member benefits, claims, referrals and cost estimates for medical services.
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Artificial Intelligence, BioPharma
IBM, Energy Department researchers tap supercomputer in fight against coronavirus
While the lead author of the study, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, cautioned that the researchers had not found a cure for the virus that causes COVID-19, they were able to identify 77 compounds after screening more than 8,000 in a matter of days.
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IBM pays $14.8M to settle allegiations it violated the False Claims Act
The DOJ claims that IBM subsidiary Cúram Software misrepresented its ability to meet specified technical requirements in its contract to develop Maryland’s health insurance exchange website and IT platform.
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Health IT, Startups, Health Tech
IBM launches accelerator program to help startups grow and prioritize security
The program is open to early-stage health tech and fintech startups that are pre-Series A, less than five years old and have less than $1 million in revenue. The application deadline is 5 PM PT on July 31, 2019.
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Merck, IBM, Walmart and KPMG to pilot blockchain pharmaceutical supply chain system
The four companies are collaborating under a program that stems from a law that Congress passed in 2013 to develop an electronic pharmaceutical tracking system.
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Biden Cancer Initiative pairs up with IBM, Syapse to improve access to clinical trial information
The Biden Cancer Initiative has announced that multiple healthcare organizations — including BreastCancerTrials.org, IBM Watson Health, Massive Bio and Syapse — are creating a shared platform called the Oncology Clinical Trial Information Commons, which will help cancer patients to know their clinical trial options.
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Artificial Intelligence, Pharma
Report: IBM is ending sales of Watson for Drug Discovery
IBM is stopping the development and sales of the product, which uses Watson AI to help pharmaceutical companies find new drugs, because it wasn’t yielding large enough financial returns, according to a STAT report.
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Startups, Artificial Intelligence
The Consumer Technology Association launches new AI initiative with groups like Fitbit, Google and IBM
CTA’s working group, which includes more than 30 different organizations, is an effort to bring stakeholders together to create common understanding around AI definitions, proper data management and ethical considerations like bias and privacy.
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Hospitals, Artificial Intelligence
IBM Watson Health invests $50M in research collaborations, teams up with Broad Institute to predict risk of cardiovascular disease
These two announcements come after Deborah DiSanzo left her role as IBM Watson Health general manager last year.
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Boehringer Ingelheim, IBM to study blockchain in clinical trials
At the ongoing HIMSS conference in Orlando, Florida, the companies’ Canadian divisions said their partnership would mark the technology’s first use in clinical trials in Canada.
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Health IT, Hospitals, Startups
IBM and Israeli hospital establish digital health accelerator
The program from IBM Israel and Hadassah Medical Center, which will begin in the first quarter of 2019 and last six months, is open to startups that have completed a post-seed round of financing, according to Israeli publication Globes.