Thread: IBM Watson - Healthcare and Decision Support

I saw this, live, at HIMSS 2012. I can safely say that it was a very powerful demonstration and will be a game changer in terms of diagnosing and treating patients.Innovator Chat: How Watson Can Transform Healthcare

According to one expert, only 20 percent of the knowledge physicians use to make diagnosis and treatment decisions today is evidence based. The result? One in five diagnoses are incorrect or incomplete and nearly 1.5 million medication errors are made in the U.S. every year. Given the growing complexity of medical decision making, how can health care providers address these problems?

Dr. Martin Kohn, Chief Medical Scientist for IBM Research, responds to our questions on how Watson is transforming the healthcare industry.

Hardly. Revolutionary instead.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD