Is information the answer to every problem? Perhaps, as IBM sees it, only with the right amount of access and analysis
The company is about to put IBM Watson, the Jeopardy-playing, dinner-cooking, cloud-based supercomputer in a blender with billions of healthcare data bits. The result: Watson Health Cloud.
The goal is a recalibration of healthcare costs through always-available access to information about personal health and how it compares to health details about millions of anonymized others.
"We believe a very large portion of healthcare spend is preventable," said John Kelly, IBM's SVP of solutions research, in an interview with Mashable. "Costs can improve dramatically through these technologies." Kelly is so confident in Watson Health Cloud that he thinks it can not only halt the growth of healthcare costs, but also reverse them. Read more...
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