Apple, iBM and Watson Ping!
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Posted on 04/13/2015 4:42:15 PM PDT by Star Traveler
Experts in health care and information technology agree on the future’s biggest opportunity: the creation of a new computational model that will link together all of the massive computers that now hold medical information.
IBM is today staking its claim to be a major player in creating that cloud, and to use its Watson artificial intelligence to make sense of the flood of medical data that will result. The new effort uses new, innovative systems to keep data secure, IBM executives say, even while allowing software to use them remotely.
Big Blue is certainly putting some muscle into medicine. Some 2,000 employees will be involved in a new Watson-in-medicine business unit. The Armonk, N.Y.-based computing giant is making two acquisitions, too, buying Cleveland’s Explorys, an analytics company that has access to 50 million medical records from U.S. patients, and Dallas’ Phytel, a healthcare services head of IBM’s Life Science company that provides feedback to doctors and patients for follow-up care. Deal prices were not disclosed.
It is also announcing some big partnerships:
• Apple will work to integrate Watson-based apps into its HealthKit and ResearchKit tool systems for developers, which allow the collection of personal health data and the use of such data in clinical trials.
• Johnson & Johnson JNJ -1.48%, which is one of the largest makers of knee and hip implants, will use Watson to create a personal concierge service to prepare patients for knee surgery and to help them deal with its after effects.
• Medtronic, the maker of implantable heart devices and diabetes products, will use Watson to create an “internet of things” around its medical gadgets, collecting data both for patients’ personal use and, once it’s anonymized, for understanding how well the implants are working. Initially, the focus is on diabetes.
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Yeah, I just don’t trust gubmint or big business. Why do they deserve it? They dont.
Woohoo! Fascism...wonderful good!
You gotta be kidding ... I look on the Medicare website and they already have my medical stuff. All my insurance claims are there. And those claims have been there for a long time before now on their computers ... long before “I” had access to it from the outside. This was all on their computer systems when I only received “paper” from them.
Then, I go to the doctor’s portal for my information and I now have access to it, whereas I didn’t have access to it before. And that “before time” when all I could get from the doctor was “paper” ... his office ALREADY had it on their computer system. It was ONLY ME who didn’t have it on a computer system ... :-) ...
I go down to Walgreens and I get prescriptions ... and in the past Walgreens had those prescriptions on their computer system. I didn’t have them, and I would play HECK in trying to get that information. So, they could “look it up for me” on their computer system, but I didn’t have it (unless I manually recorded it all myself and on my own). NOW ... Walgreens let’s me get access to their computer system and see all those prescriptions. I NOW get the same access Walgreens had for a decade or more BEFORE me!
AND THEN, those prescriptions run through the insurance company, which Medicare has access to. I can ALSO go to the insurance company and get access to their computer data that they have had ALL ALONG ... long before I could ever “call it up” on their computer system (which I can do now).
The ONLY ONES who DID NOT HAVE ACCESS to that information in the past were the PATIENTS themselves!! ... LOL ...
I think it’s GREAT that I can now start getting the kind of access to my data on computer ... which EVERYONE ELSE HAD decades before me! ... :-) ...
I actually think it’s FASCIST to keep my information “from me” ... which was the case in decades past!
They don’t “deserve it” ... they’ve ALREADY GOT IT ... and they’ve had it decades before me!
That would be all those doctors and their own computers, the insurance company and their computers, Medicare and their computers, the pharmacies and their computers, the labs and their computers ... it was ONLY ME and MY COMPUTER who couldn’t get my own medical data ... LOL ...
Just wait until you deal with :
a) legacy data
b) mistyped / miscoded forms (OCR is not a panacaea)
c) revisions (e.g. what used to be an atypical dose, medicine, or symptom characterized in the electronic question as “other’, now ‘mainstreamed’; or changes in classification or terminology)
d) deciphering abbreviations and incompatible hash tables / abbreviations between different sources
e) Different databases with different field sizes and consequent truncations
f) errors in things like weight-dependent dosage vs. body-surface-area dosages, where the person checks one but fills in the other
g) differential diagnosis where the doctors are stumped for six months or a year
You have no idea WTF you’re talking about.
There are multiple competing sets of mutually exclusive codes; different payment schedules and rules per provider and system; AND different sets of all of the above per region, state, and (sometimes) municipality (e.g. New York often gets its own separate rules).
The ONLY PRIVACY your medical records had in the past was “PRIVACY FROM YOU”! ... LOL ...
They were already electronically in existence at the doctors office, at the insurance company, at the lab, at the pharmacy, at Medicare ... etc. In the past, it was YOU who had a heck of a time getting access to your medical records and files. It’s still somewhat that way today, although it is getting easier than it was 10 or 20 years ago.
And actually I like “medical care by the Internet” because I then bring more information into that doctor’s office visit than I ever had before. Back in 1985, I would have had to do a research project at the library of I wanted to have more informarion to bring into the doctor’s office. Today, I can get it quickly from my own house and not make such a big deal out of it.
I end up discussing much more with my doctors than I did a decade or two ago. I also have quick access to my lab results and then I bring that into the discussion with the doctor and I don’t have to make a special trip down to some window with a clerk behind it, and hope I can get the information printed out on paper before my next doctor’s visit.
AND ... with “deductibles” ... I don’t pay a single deductible on any doctor’s visit, any lab work, any X-ray, any CAT-scan, any “first of the year deductible” for any procedure of any kind ... :-) ...
Well ... in the “big picture” ... maybe Skynet ... :-) ...
Oh an J&J is sending much business south of the border now with some massive project blue slating the future for Peru.
IBM was so helpful to Jew health in the 1930’s Germany.
“If you get in an auto accident and the people treating you want to know if you’ve recently had XYZ test, the problem is that every hospital uses a different coding system for that test. WHO was trying to standardize the coding system for those tests”
Seems to me that requires a DD system approach. NOTHING in your original synopsis indicated “different payment schedules”, “different co-pays”, or whatever blather. The original description was that one medic couldn’t tell what tests had been performed at another location.
Additionally, “the internet of things” is a term in the article (electronic devices that update their status on the internet, including coffee makers). THAT does nothing to alleviate determining “which test was run on whom et al”. It does report “heartbeat irregularity from pacemaker 12234221”.
Notes isn’t quite dead for me but it’s at least comatose. There are hundreds of proprietary databases in there which justifies its continued existence.
Supporting Lotus Notes was an eye opening experience. It should be criminal to sell it.
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Colossus might do a better job.
Why don't you read up on HealthKit's purpose and how it works before you show your off your abysmal ignorance. . . instead of trying to make snarky points that are meaningless if you knew what you were talking about. Right?
Well, for one very positive thing, FreeRepublic. ;^)
And that is supposed to keep ME from having as easy access to my own data, that EVERYONE ELSE has had for years?!
If people can’t see where this is going, they are surely blind!
Sure it’s handy but the internet is not your friend.
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