Tiatros CarePod uses IBM’s Watson’s Natural Language Processing API to get health information from a patient's unstructured health data, like a patient's communication with care managers, and integrates it with other available health info.
Big Blue is opening Watson Health's global headquarters near Boston and introducing IBM Watson Health Cloud for Life Sciences and IBM Watson Care Manager. This comes barely a week after Salesforce debuted a data aggregator called Salesforce Health Cloud.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
IBM Watson Health VP Kathleen McGroddy Goetz delivered the closing keynote at MedCity CONVERGE on Wednesday.
IBM will re-enter the electronic health records business and also give supercomputer Watson the ability to "see" medical images, thanks to a planned $1 billion acquisition of Merge Healthcare.
More than 80 percent to 90 percent of all healthcare data in existence was generated in the last 2-3 years, and 90 percent of that data is unstructured. IBM Watson wants to help.
There’s an interesting article in USA Today this week about how IBM approach to its Watson division led to it playing a critical role in making big data less unwieldy, supporting digital health startups and becoming a resource for the healthcare industry. Not bad for a computer brain that got its start as a Jeopardy […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.