Cognitive computing will democratize medicine, IBM Watson officials say

Healthcare IT News: IBM officials struck a bold tone about artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and machine learning at Health Datapalooza.

“In 10 years cognitive will be as mainstream as transactional systems are today,” said Jane Snowdon, director IBM Watson health partnerships. “Today we are very focused on healthcare, we are training on different lexicons and domains so Watson can be very specialized for those fields.”

Snowdon explained that with 8,000 new medical journal articles published every day it’s impossible for, say, an oncologist to keep pace with state of the art data on clinical trials, treatment regimens and other medical literature but Watson can translate all that data into information relevant to a specific patient case.

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