IBM Research WatsonPaths Demo

“After a year-long research collaboration with faculty, physicians and students at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, IBM Research has unveiled two cognitive computing technologies that can be used by Watson, and are expected to help physicians make more informed and accurate decisions faster and to cull new insights from electronic medical records (EMR). The projects known as “WatsonPaths” and “Watson EMR Assistant” will create technologies that can be used by Watson in the domain of medicine.”

Now that’s what you do with a genius-level chess playing computer – I’m excited about the implications of applying this level of computing power to medicine.

Read more: http://www.research.ibm.com/cognitive-computing/watson/watsonpaths.shtml#fbid=mDqVukiuYVU