[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.

[SpaceBar]

Lenovo (chicom) Inside

[RckyRaCoCo]

[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.

[I want the USA back]

The computer does only what its programmed to do.

[Tired of Taxes]

CANCER WARRIORS PING

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[Balata]

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.

It's not the diagnosis process. It's the treatment process.