Transforming Healthcare with IBM Watson on Power
WellPoint, Inc.: Accelerating healthcare preapproval with IBM Watson on Power® (00:02:42)
With medical information doubling every five years, Wellpoint, Inc. saw an opportunity to apply groundbreaking capabilities of IBM Watson on Power Systems™ in a way that could improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare decisions.
Doctors are Addressing Big Data Challenges Using IBM Watson
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IBM, WellPoint, Inc. and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center unveil the first commercially developed Watson-based cognitive computing breakthroughs. These innovations stand alone to help transform the quality and speed of care delivered to patients through individualized, evidence based medicine.
IBM Watson: A System Designed for Answers
Watson is a workload optimized system designed for complex analytics, made possible by integrating massively parallel POWER® processors and DeepQA technology. Read the white paper about Watson’s workload optimized system design.
As businesses put Watson to work for smarter analytics solutions, each new challenge will be different, combining established analytics solutions with new technologies like DeepQA, and domain knowledge contributed by experts in specific industries. Watch the video (00:03:01)
Industry perspectives on Watson
Healthcare
See how a DeepQA system similar to Watson could help transform how doctors and hospitals care for patients.
Finance
A system with capabilities similar to Watson could help transform how the finance industry does business
Customer Services (00:01:02)
Watch as IBM experts explain how an IBM DeepQA system similar to Watson could help transform customer service.
How can you put Watson to work?
Watson demonstrated that even the most complex analytics challenges can be successfully overcome. So, perhaps the most important question is “How can you put Watson to work?”
IBM Watson Solutions Lab – Insider's view to the environment where IBM and its development partners collaborate on new directions in cognitive systems.
Building Watson on commercially available POWER systems helped accelerate businesses putting Watson to work. Watson uses commercially available Power 750 systems, deployed by businesses today to run workload optimized systems for everything from complex analytics to transaction processing. Learn more
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Case studies
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IBM Watson Hard At Work: New Breakthroughs Transform Quality Care for Patients