Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“IBM is celebrating the first birthday of Watson this week. I had the opportunity to brainstorm some of the short- and long-term meanings of Watson in health care this week at HIMSS 2012 in Las Vegas.
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Joab Jackson, PC Advisor
“One field IBM is investigating is medicine. The company is working with medical researchers and doctors from Columbia University to adapt Watson so it can offer medical diagnosis and treatment.
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Tom Groenfeldt, Forbes
“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.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
“IBM and WellPoint produced a couple of weeks an infographic in their “Watson in Healthcare” series, titled “What makes you sick?”.
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Brendon Nafziger, DOTmed News
“A doctor is about to prescribe an antibiotic, but is a bit worried it might interact with an antidepressant her patient is currently taking, Wellbutrin. So, what does she do? It’s possible, in the near future, she might simply pull out her phone and ask it.
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Vinod Khosla, The Crunch
“I was asked about a year ago at a talk about energy what I was doing about the other large social problems, namely health care and education. Surprised, I flippantly responded that the best solution was to get rid of doctors and teachers and let your computers do the work, 24/7 and with consistent quality.
Later, I got to cogitating about what I had said and why, and how embarrassingly wrong that might be. But the more I think about it the more I feel my gut reaction was probably right.
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Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“The next assignment for IBM’s Watson supercomputer is to evaluate treatments for cancer. Health insurer WellPoint, which is looking into real-life applications for Watson, has announced that a leading cancer institution in Los Angeles, Cedars-Sinai’s Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, will provide expertise to the company on developing applications based on IBM’s Watson data-analytics machine.
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M Neelam Kachhap, Express Healthcare
“Watson, the IBM supercomputer is believed to have revolutionised the healthcare industry with its analytical capabilities. Having won the USD one million “Jeopardy!” challenge and establishing its power, Watson is now moving towards challenges in healthcare.
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Michelle McNickle, Healthcare IT News
“Earlier this year, a robot named Watson beat out two long-time champs on the quiz show Jeopardy, using 200 million pages of structured and unstructured content.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“IBM has launched a new technology designed to extract relevant clinical information from unstructured data. Based on the same natural language processing technology used in IBM’s Watson, its new Content and Predictive Analytics for Healthcare is aimed at preventing patient readmissions.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Little over a month ago, IBM and WellPoint announced an agreement wherein WellPoint will deploy IBM’s latest and greatest super computer and artificial intelligence mega-mind Watson. Watson’s claim to fame was its ability to beat the human Jeopardy champions much like Big Blue beat reigning chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.
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Daniel Kivatinos, Dr Chrono
“Did you know that IBM’s Watson Supercomputer is operating at the level of a second or third year medical student? Watson is.
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John Pulley, NextGov
“IBM’s Watson supercomputer has a new job in health IT, a role likely to be considerably trickier than thrashing two previous Jeopardy! champions during a human vs computer showdown in February.
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Amanda Buie, Healthcare IT Solutions
“The future of Watson looks promising. Word is out that WellPoint has hired Dr. Watson to help physicians cure the ill. Watson has the ability to run patient information against medical information from multiple sources to provide feedback on diagnoses and treatment options.
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Julianne Pepitone, CNNMoneyTech
“IBM’s Watson computer thrilled “Jeopardy” audiences in February by vanquishing two human champs in a three-day match. It’s an impressive resume, and now Watson has landed a plum job.
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Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
“Watson, IBM’s game-show-playing supercomputer, will soon be used to help physicians diagnose and treat cancer patients.
IBM announced earlier this year that healthcare would be the first commercial application for the computer, which defeated two human champions on the popular television game show Jeopardy! in February.
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AP, Fox News
“IBM’s supercomputer system, best known for trouncing the world’s best “Jeopardy!” players on TV, is being tapped by one of the nation’s largest health insurers to help diagnose medical problems and authorize treatments.
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Ohno-Machado L. J Am Med Inform Assoc, 18(5)
Meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) for patient care or for research requires data to be comparable. Many portions of EHRs continue to be unstructured, presenting significant challenges for biomedical informatics. This issue of the journal displays several solutions to this problem that are based on natural language processing (NLP) techniques.
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David Ellis, H&HN Daily
“In June I announced in my Twitter column (@hfdigest) the publication of my H&HN Daily column about Watson, the IBM computer that trounced two human champions in three successive rounds of the TV game show “Jeopardy.” There ensued some brief Twitter correspondence with a doctor who seemed bemused by my contention that a version of Watson optimized for health care (a “Dr.” Watson) would one day replace human doctors.
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Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT
“At heart, Watson is an electronic health record reader. Once that technology is correctly combined with picture archiving and communication system (PACS) technology, diagnosis times for patients could be shortened tremendously, according to Dr. Eliot Siegel, a radiology professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Medicine.
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