“WellPoint and IBM are working with oncology experts at the Cedars Sinai Cancer Institute in Los Angeles to educate Watson as a physician’s assistant. Watson, an IBM computing system proved on Jeopardy! that a computer can collect and understand vast amounts of information and provide answers.
That was fine for a game show — now Watson is being put to work digesting millions of pages of research, incorporating the best clinical practices and monitoring the outcomes to assist physicians in treating cancer patients.”
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Tom Groenfeldt, Forbes, 1 February 2012
