Health IT Future: A Tale of Three Watsons
By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON If you want to see the future of health information technology, take a look at the dueling visions of two Thomas Watsons that are on display this month in a game show and a...
View ArticleWatson: A Computer So Smart, It Can Say, “Yes, Doctor”
By MICHAEL MILLENSON Game Show Watson wants to be a doctor. Well, almost. Fresh off a commanding victory on Jeopardy, IBM will try to demonstrate that the combination of advanced natural language...
View ArticleEmotional Automation Revisited
By JOSEPH KVEDAR, MD Last week we all watched in awe as the IBM computer, Watson, trounced two of Jeopardy’s finest. This event has been much heralded but it is worth stopping for just a minute to...
View ArticleFrom Jeopardy! To Your Physician’s Black Bag: Could a Supercomputer Really...
By DAN PELINO IBM’s Jeopardy-champion computer, Watson, has huge potential for helping physicians and other clinicians work with patients. The leap from TV game show to physicians’ offices will...
View ArticleDr. Watson I Presume
By JOHN MOORE Little over a month ago, IBM and WellPoint announced an agreement wherein WellPoint will deploy IBM’s latest and greatest super computer and artificial intelligence mega-mind Watson....
View ArticleIs the End of Search the Beginning of Personalized Prevention?
By Joseph Kvedar, MD This past week, Google had its annual developers conference, Google I/O. One of the more provocative talks, called “The End of Search as We Know It,” was by Amit Singhal, who is in...
View ArticleChapter Nine: In Which Dr. Watson Discovers Med School Is Slightly Tougher...
By William Hersh, MD One of the computer applications that has received the most attention in healthcare is Watson, the IBM system that achieved fame by beating humans at the television game show,...
View ArticleComing To a Decision On Decision-Support Technology
By JAAN SIDOROV, MD For more than a decade, a running joke among electronic health (EHR) record skeptics has been that its clunky “decision support” functions, defined as the on-screen provision of...
View ArticleHealth IT Future: A Tale of Three Watsons
By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON If you want to see the future of health information technology, take a look at the dueling visions of two Thomas Watsons that are on display this month in a game show and a...
View ArticleWatson: A Computer So Smart, It Can Say, “Yes, Doctor”
By MICHAEL MILLENSON Game Show Watson wants to be a doctor. Well, almost. Fresh off a commanding victory on Jeopardy, IBM will try to demonstrate that the combination of advanced natural language...
View ArticleEmotional Automation Revisited
By JOSEPH KVEDAR, MD Last week we all watched in awe as the IBM computer, Watson, trounced two of Jeopardy’s finest. This event has been much heralded but it is worth stopping for just a minute to...
View ArticleFrom Jeopardy! To Your Physician’s Black Bag: Could a Supercomputer Really...
By DAN PELINO IBM’s Jeopardy-champion computer, Watson, has huge potential for helping physicians and other clinicians work with patients. The leap from TV game show to physicians’ offices will...
View ArticleDr. Watson I Presume
By JOHN MOORE Little over a month ago, IBM and WellPoint announced an agreement wherein WellPoint will deploy IBM’s latest and greatest super computer and artificial intelligence mega-mind Watson....
View ArticleIs the End of Search the Beginning of Personalized Prevention?
By Joseph Kvedar, MD This past week, Google had its annual developers conference, Google I/O. One of the more provocative talks, called “The End of Search as We Know It,” was by Amit Singhal, who is in...
View ArticleChapter Nine: In Which Dr. Watson Discovers Med School Is Slightly Tougher...
By William Hersh, MD One of the computer applications that has received the most attention in healthcare is Watson, the IBM system that achieved fame by beating humans at the television game show,...
View ArticleComing To a Decision On Decision-Support Technology
By JAAN SIDOROV, MD For more than a decade, a running joke among electronic health (EHR) record skeptics has been that its clunky “decision support” functions, defined as the on-screen provision of...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence & How Doctors Think: An Interview with Thomas...
AJAY KOHLI, MD As I walk into the building, the sheer grandiosity of the room is one to withhold — it’s as if I’m walking into Grand Central station. There’s a small army of people, all busy at their...
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