IBM CEO: Watson Health is ‘our moonshot’ in healthcare
A new IBM business unit launched last week to help physicians, researchers, insurers and patients use big data, analytics and mobile technology to achieve better health outcomes is being described by...
View ArticleHow big data is changing healthcare
If you want to find out how Big Data is helping to make the world a better place, there’s no better example than the uses being found for it in healthcare. The last decade has seen huge advances in the...
View ArticleIBM Watson adds hybrid cloud developer tools
IBM Watson this week began rolling out new hybrid cloud capabilities that will integrate IBM Cloud with a growing number of cognitive computing and content analytics services in the Watson Zone on...
View ArticleHealthcare analytics: 4 things impacting adoption
Healthcare analytics has tremendous potential. The market has been estimated to be over 20 billion by the year 2020 according to industry research firms ( Market and Markets , iQ4i), and the promise of...
View ArticleHow Fitbit and IBM Watson are transferring the power of healthcare data from...
The last week saw a couple of very important announcements in the world of healthcare. Wearable device pioneer Fitbit announced an IPO that could raise over $100 million. Fitbit is at the leading edge...
View ArticlePartnering for Alzheimer’s research
It is easy to envy her. A self-assured vice president of Macy’s, the world’s largest retailer, tireless champion of cause marketing and active community leader creating jobs across the garment...
View ArticleBig Blue bets a billion bucks; health tech to the fore
Somewhere in IBM‘s corporate headquarters there must be a computer system that is malfunctioning. This system is the one that controls capital expenditure, and the unlikely bug means that IBM can only...
View ArticleOne simple way to ensure the integrity of Health IT
Several times a year, seven Guardians of the Internet check to make sure the “root zone” of this network of networks has not been violated. Together they unlock a safe deposit box, take out a...
View ArticleSoftLayer helps Czech nonprofit Tichý svět aid hearing impaired
Imagine you’re alone, having a medical emergency. You need an ambulance and to go to the hospital, immediately. You dial a public emergency number for assistance and an operator answers. The problem...
View ArticleAdvocate Health uses big data to improve value-based care
Advocate Health Care is looking to big data and predictive analytics to improve patient care and better control costs. The health system has partnered with Cerner, a maker of electronic health-records...
View ArticleWhat Warren Buffett sees in IBM, others are missing
Berkshire Hathaway doesn’t usually invest in technology stocks. But it has been investing in IBM, doubling down, as the stock dropped in the third quarter. Apparently, Mr. Buffett sees beyond IBM’s...
View ArticleThe power of cognitive computing and the Internet of Things
This is the third and final blog in the Digital Transformation in the Cognitive Business Era series where we explore how cognitive systems like IBM Watson are redefining society, business and human...
View ArticleWant big health care business? Open your big data and say, ‘Aha!’
The public health potential of patient-generated big data first struck me when I heard the Mayor of Oklahoma City, Mick Cornett, lament at the 2013 TEDMED conference that his city had the unfortunate...
View ArticleIn India, IBM’s Watson will aid cancer care where doctors are scarce
IBM and a large hospital system in India have partnered to diagnose and treat cancer care in a country of 1.2 billion residents who often cannot access oncologists, leaving their diseases undetected...
View ArticleHow the cloud is revolutionizing healthcare
When you go to your annual checkup, you most likely watch the doctor log on to an old computer, type in a series of passwords on a loud keyboard, search through an outdated, slow computer system for...
View ArticleCarolinas HealthCare using big data to better care for patient populations
Carolinas HealthCare System is one of the nation’s leading and most innovative healthcare organizations. It’s also a big believer in big data and is leveraging the technology to deliver enhanced...
View Article2016 will be a big year for health IT
Policymakers are predicting that 2016 will be a big year for health IT. At an event this week hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), administration officials and members of Congress outlined...
View Article5 healthcare technology predictions for 2016
Interoperability will continue to be a top issue in 2016 While over $28 Billion has been spent so far on implementing health information technology, particularly Electronic Health Record Systems (EHR),...
View ArticleIBM shows off ’empathic’ robot, offers Watson to diabetics
IBM doesn’t do consumer electronics, but IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty is making a big speech tonight at CES (the Consumer Electronics Show, a Superbowl of gadgets and widgets) about the moves that...
View Article3 reasons why healthcare CIOs love wearables
They’re the gift that keeps on giving – wearables. Healthcare CIOs have to love wearables. I know what you’re thinking. What value do consumer products have to my healthcare provider organization?...
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