Watson in Healthcare
Read how Watson technology can be applied into the healthcare industry.

In today’s healthcare environment, where physicians are often working with limited information and little time, the results can be fragmented care and errors that raise costs and threaten quality. What doctors need is an assistant who can quickly read and understand massive amounts of information and then provide useful suggestions.
Watson’s ability to deal with natural language across a wide collection of diverse information and make it more digestible for humans holds enormous potential to transform healthcare effectiveness, efficiency and patient outcomes.
Features
Watson in Healthcare (PDF, 44KB)
Read how the technology behind Watson could help accurately diagnose patients.
Learn more. (PDF, 44KB)
Watson: An industry perspective
Medical records, texts, journals and research documents are all written in natural language – a language that computers traditionally struggle to understand. A system that instantly delivers a single, precise answer from these documents could transform the healthcare industry.
View the video here.
Collaboration between IBM and Nuance provide advanced analytics capabilities (US)
Joint Research effort to Integrate IBM’s Watson and Nuance’s Voice and Clinical Language Solutions to provide enhanced access to critical and timely information.
Learn more. (US)
Watson Computer comes to the University of Maryland (link resides outside of ibm.com)
The University of Maryland School of Medicine is one of only two universities working with IBM to test the advanced analytics of the company's "Watson" computer for potential healthcare applications.
View the video here.
