IBM Watson: Ushering in a new era of computing

IBM Watson Demo: Oncology Diagnosis and Treatment (2 min.)

The Art of the Possible: Transforming Healthcare with IBM Watson

IBM has taken a major step forward with partners Memorial Sloan Kettering and WellPoint in putting IBM Watson to work in healthcare. On Friday, February 8th, the team unveiled the first commercially-developed Watson-based breakthroughs. These innovations have the potential to help transform the quality and speed of care — and the entire healthcare industry — through individualized evidence-based medicine.

IBM Watson Demo: Oncology Diagnosis and Treatment (8 min.)

Help fight cancer with evidence-based diagnosis and treatment suggestions (1.2MB)

Enable more effective healthcare preapproval decisions using evidence-based learning (1.2MB)

Watson goes to work (1.53MB)

Cognitive systems like Watson may transform how organizations think, act, and operate in the future. Learning through interactions, they deliver evidence based responses driving better outcomes.

Putting Watson to work
Data is growing at extraordinary rates - 800 percent in the next five years and 90 percent of it is less than 2 years old. Learn how Watson combines natural language processing, machine learning, and hypothesis generation and evaluation to give you direct, confidence-based responses.

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  Watson in healthcare

  See how Watson helps health care organizations improve diagnosis and treatment

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  Watson in finance

  See how Watson helps financial institutions improve investment decisions and customer satisfaction

Take the next step Is your business ready for Watson? Discover how to prepare your organization for a Watson solution deployment by building a foundational set of capabilities.

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The science behind Watson
Watson understands natural language, breaking down the barrier between people and machines. The system then generates hypotheses - recognizing that there are different probabilities of various outcomes. See how Watson "learns," tracking feedback - learning from success and failure - to improve future responses.

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