{"id":2518,"date":"2013-02-09T21:13:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T21:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2013-02-09T22:49:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T22:49:12","slug":"demonstrating-ibm-watson-for-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2518","title":{"rendered":"Demonstrating IBM Watson for healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"

I work on a computer system called IBM Watson – I might have mentioned it once or twice<\/a> before? <\/p>\n

Yesterday, IBM unveiled the progress that we and our partners have made with Watson in healthcare<\/a> at an event in New York. <\/p>\n

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I didn’t get to go, but I did keep half an eye on what was happening through twitter. Here are some of the tweets that caught my eye. <\/p>\n

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Some of the tweets set the scene for what we’re trying to do with Watson, and how we’ve been doing it in partnership with people with deep expertise in the healthcare field. <\/p>\n

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1.6M new cases of cancer this year, rate of costs climbing 3X, need to capitalize on rapidly changing info @ibmwatson<\/a> can help<\/p>\n

— IBM Watson (@IBMWatson) February 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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WellPoint’s Dr. Sam Nussbaum:We have an opportunity to take big data and create personalized care. #ibmwatson<\/a> #TransformingHealthCare<\/a><\/p>\n

— WellPoint (@WellPoint) February 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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#IBMWatson<\/a> is using evidence-based treatment models to individualize care and improve the speed and qual of treatment.33charts.com\/2013\/02\/why-ib\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/a><\/p>\n

— Damian Borbolla (@daborbolla) February 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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WellPoint’s Dr Sam Nussbaum: we have to make sure we implement evidence-based care. #ibmwatson<\/a> #TransformingHealthCare<\/a><\/p>\n

— WellPoint (@WellPoint) February 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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#IBMwatson<\/a> approaches a #cancer<\/a> patient’s case just like a doctor; considers symptoms, test results, treatment options<\/p>\n

— Sloan-Kettering (@sloan_kettering) February 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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#ibmwatson<\/a> Manoj Saxena: focus is on collaboration IBM knows tech, partners @sloan_kettering<\/a> @wellpoint<\/a> know medicine twitter.com\/ajbowles\/statu\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/a><\/p>\n

— Adrian Bowles (@ajbowles) February 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Chief Medical Officer @wellpoint<\/a> talks about advancing evidence based care from today’s std of ~50% to > 90% with #ibmwatson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

— Stephen Gold (@sgold1b) February 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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@ibmwatson<\/a> can sift thru millions of pages of info. We’re using this tech. to give docs fast access to info. ow.ly\/hy0tf<\/a> @mashable<\/a><\/p>\n

— WellPoint (@WellPoint) February 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Lori Beer from @wellpoint<\/a> – 40-60% of nurses time spent on aggregating info, @ibmwatson<\/a> reduces that, focus energy on clinical part of job<\/p>\n

— IBM Watson (@IBMWatson) February 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Numbers and stats are always popular, particularly in tweets when you only have 140 characters to sum up the progress that has been made on advancing Watson since Jeopardy! and the achievements we made last year. <\/p>\n

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MT @sloan_kettering<\/a>: #IBMWatson<\/a> is now 240% faster than it was in the Jeopardy! demo. It’s smarter, too, thanks to “trainers” @sloan_kettering<\/a> and other partners<\/p>\n

— SUSE (@SUSE) February 9, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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@ibmwatson<\/a> has read 600K+ pieces of evidence & 2M pages from medical journals & clinical trials re: oncology research<\/p>\n

— kdattoli (@kdattoli) February 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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#ibmwatson<\/a> 2012 success: 6 deployments, 90% of nurses follow Watson recs, 75% reduction in time to market w\/ new #cancer<\/a> therapies.<\/p>\n

— Paul Barsch (@paul_a_barsch) February 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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#IBMWatson<\/a> is disruptive technology in healthcare says Cleveland Clinic, 90% accurate when trained! — IBM Watson (@ibmwatson<\/a>)<\/p>\n

— Xavier Noguera Pages (@XavierNoguera) February 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Practicing evidence-based medicine: doctors are 50% accurate; #IBMwatson<\/a>is 90% when trained. Dr Kris says only 100% accuracy is acceptable<\/p>\n

— Caitlin Hool (@caitlin_hool) February 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n