Posted on 07/30/2015 2:35:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The artificial intelligence system known as Watson is going to supercompute your health. IBM and CVS announced on Thursday that they will work together to come up with algorithms that use physiological indicators and red-flag behaviors to predict whose health is fine and whose may be on the decline. The first stage of the deal will focus on patients with chronic conditions, such as heart disease and obesity, but after that the sky's the limit. Here's why the deal is poised to shake up the way you think about health care.
CVS has 7,600 retail stores, about 1,000 walk-in medical clinics, and a pharmacy program with more than 70 million participants. That's nearly 22 percent of the U.S. population. The IBM-CVS partnership could transform the roles of a pharmacist, retail clinic practitioner and your primary-care doctors and specialists. A routine trip to the drugstore could involve consulting with Watson at a kiosk about your health...
With mobile phones everywhere and wearable fitness devices proliferating, the average person is predicted to generate more than 1 million gigabytes of health data in their lives. IBM is working with Apple, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic to use Watson to glean insights about people's health and the effectiveness of interventions.
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The value of Obamacare is to reduce the lifespan not lengthen it.
That’s the secret to saving SocSec and Medicare.
Yup. Like gun ownership, voting conservative, Bible believing, and heterosexualism.
Diagnosis: Bitter Clinger
I guess I’m going back to Walgreens, unless I can find a mom and pop pharmacy nearby.
No, they'll link it up with the NSA email and text and internet intercepts, and to Obama's racial database; feed the output into "Deny all care" lists under Obamacare; and call a new public-private (cough Fascist cough Nazi) partnership -- an offshoot of Klanned Barrenhood, which will only kill caucasians to serve as tokens covering Klanned Barrenhood's racism -- to harvest the parts. No muss, no fuss.
“Oh, joy...a super-computer will be watching our “red-flag behaviors”
Comment of the day!
I wonder if it will flag homosexuality as a high risk factor.
About the same likelihood as Salma Hayek dumping her billionaire husband and calling me for a date....
I've seen quite a few mom and pop pharmacy showing up around me. I think people are tired of the big chain BS, esp. with Walgreens.
> I wonder if it will flag homosexuality as a high risk factor.
No, that will fall out of the data naturally. AIDs these days is almost treated as a chronic condition, not a death sentence. However, it is an expensive chronic condition and that alone will get insurance companies looking for an excuse to drop them.
Similiarly, multiple STDs and infections from e. coli will show up as a “butt bandits”. Expensive patients that are to be avoided.
Prolly end up using it to let the jackboots know whose guns need confiscated.
I wonder if the pharmacy scanner will require a tattoo on our forehead or hand for identification? Has anyone heard from Claire Wolf lately?
So far my new smaller mom & pop pharmacy is far better than Walgreens ever was in every way.
I would not go back to a “big” store, after seeing the great service a “small” shop can provide.
Don’t worry, Iran will shut this down with a Nuclear EMP.
Fantastic, let’s just turn our prescriptions over to “skynet”.
CC
Download GoodRX. You enter your meds and it tells you what they are at different outlets around you. One thing I take is $21 at Walmart and $59 at Walgreens. Everything I look up is like that at Walgreens and Rite Aid. Ridiculous expensive!!
suppose I can take my gov’t required wrist band and attach it to a playful colt in the pasture next to me - should get some good reading from his activities.
Can’t imagine myself buying anything there on this news.
I keep getting calls from my health insurance co offering me a “free health care review”. I asked “why would I want that? That’s what my doctor is for.”
The guy on the phone tells me, “This isn’t to replace you’re doctor, it’s just an additional free benefit.”
So I told him “Reviewing my health is my doctor’s job. Your job is to pay for it. Now quit calling me.”
So far they haven’t called back.
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