Posted on 05/06/2015 11:24:00 AM PDT by 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.
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Using computers to trawl through vast amounts of medical data speeds up the diagnosis process.
It's not the diagnosis process. It's the treatment process.
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