IBM's Watson supercomputer to speed up cancer care

BBC ^ | 6 May 2015 | BBC

[PastorBooks]

IBM's supercomputer Watson will be used to make decisions about cancer care in 14 hospitals in the US and Canada, it has been announced.

Using computers to trawl through vast amounts of medical data speeds up the diagnosis process.

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It also recently teamed up with IBM to allow the software that helps gather health data from iPhones to be used by Watson.

[PastorBooks]

"I've got a bad feeling about this." -- Han Solo

[Teacher317]

Since when was speed of decision-making a big issue in oncology?

Wait, let me guess: Once government got involved.

[PastorBooks]

Apple news ping:

Apple “also recently teamed up with IBM to allow the software that helps gather health data from iPhones to be used by Watson.”

[Mariner]

“I’m sorry, but Watson analyzed your purchasing habits, exercise habits and heredity and determined you are 82% likely not to respond to chemo and surgery. All we are able to offer is palliative care and hospice”.

[PastorBooks]

Cancer Warriors List ping

[wally_bert]

Brought to you by the same people that foisted Lotus Notes on the unsuspecting world. Software so buggy and unstable plus absurdly designed that IBM wasn’t sure how it worked wometimes. They blame corruption on the end user and give up.

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Lenovo (chicom) Inside

[oh8eleven]

Brought to you by the same people that foisted Lotus Notes on the unsuspecting world.
I was a Notes developer for many years, and never really had that many problems.
You referring to server side issues?

[PastorBooks]

How long until health insurance rates are tied to having to wear one of these things?

[RckyRaCoCo]

[wally_bert]

Endless weird problems in 8.5, especially on laptops.

Other than supporting ETQ databases, it is dead. I’m glad. Either a 2 minute fix or a two day ordeal.

[edpc]

Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination. - Kyle Reese

If it took a microsecond, the computer must have thought long and hard about it.

[oh8eleven]

Endless weird problems in 8.5, especially on laptops.
I retired when 6.5 was current release (IIRC).

[wally_bert]

Just transitioned to Outlook and exchange and a lot of headaches went away.

Getting the fossils to use Outlook wasn’t too bad. I don’t hear much for the good old days of Notes.

Doing anything in notes seemed to take several extra steps assuming advanced menus were enabled in right area. The menu structure in 8.5 was a migraine inducer sometimes.

[I want the USA back]

The computer does only what its programmed to do.

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[__rvx86]

If it takes a whole second, then it had MAJOR doubts.

[PastorBooks]

“The computer does only what its programmed to do.”

That’s the scary part.

“The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?” — the computer Joshua, in ‘Wargames’ (1983)

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"When you are dealing with cancer, it is always a race," said Dr Lukas Wartman, assistant director of cancer genomics at the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, one of those signed up to use the Watson system.

"When you are dealing with cancer, it is always a race," said Dr Lukas Wartman, assistant director of cancer genomics at the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, one of those signed up to use the Watson system.

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